The Tour Atlas is a large database of geometrical tables, plots, and graphics used by Cassini science planning engineers and scientists primarily for science observation planning. Over time, as the contents of the Tour Atlas grew, the amount of time it took to recreate the Tour Atlas similarly grew--to the point that it took one person a week of effort. When Cassini tour designers estimated that they were going to create approximately 30 candidate Extended Mission trajectories--which needed to be analyzed for science return in a short amount of time--it became a necessity to automate. We report on the automation methodology that reduced the amount of time it took one person to (re)generate a Tour Atlas from a week to, literally, one UNIX command.


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    Title :

    Automating the Generation of the Cassini Tour Atlas Database


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SpaceOps 2010 ; 2010 ; Huntsville, AL, United States


    Publication date :

    2010-04-25


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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