As satellite equipment and mission operations become more costly, the drive to keep working equipment running with less man-power rises.Demonstrating the feasibility of autonomous satellite servicing was the main goal behind the Orbital Express (OE) mission. Planning the satellite mission operations for OE required the ability to create a plan which could be executed autonomously over variable conditions. The Automated-Scheduling and Planning Environment (ASPEN)tool, developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was used to create the schedule of events in each daily plan for the two satellites of the OE mission. This paper presents an introduction to the ASPEN tool, the constraints of the OE domain, the variable conditions that were presented within the mission, and the solution to operations that ASPEN provided. ASPEN has been used in several other domains, including research rovers, Deep Space Network scheduling research, and in flight operations for the ASE project's EO1 satellite. Related work is discussed, as are the future of ASPEN and the future of autonomous satellite servicing.


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    Title :

    Orbital Express Mission Operations Planning and Resource Management using ASPEN


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando, Florida, March 16, 2008 ; 2008 ; Orlando, FL, United States


    Publication date :

    2008-03-16


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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