Aqua, Aura, and Terra are Earth observing satellites that serve in the Earth Observing System (EOS). Terra, the flagship mission of the EOS, was launched in 1998. Aqua was launched in 2002 and Aura was launched in 2004. Each spacecraft was designed for a 6 year lifespan. Currently, each spacecraft meets all mission and science requirements. As technology advances, the onboard hardware and software remain the same, however, our ground system progresses. In the past twenty years, many changes have taken place. Our goal is to describe the life of the ground system from launch, to present day, and touch on our future plans. The focus of our presentation will be how EOS has and continues to modernize our ground system for the future. We would like to share our experiences and give insight into the operational challenges of a 20 year old ground system. Our hope is for future mission operators and those maintaining potential age defying satellites to use our past experiences and lessons learned for future operational concepts.


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    Title :

    Ground System Milestones: 20 Years of Earth Observing Satellite Mission Operations


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Ground Station Architecture Workshop 2020 ; 2020 ; Los Angeles, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2020-03-03


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English







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