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Satellite Ground Operations Automation: Lessons Learned and Future ApproachesReducing spacecraft ground system operations costs is a major goal in all missions. The Fast Auroral Snapshot (FAST) flight operations team at the NASA/Goddard Spacecraft Flight Center developed in-house scripts and procedures to automate monitoring of critical spacecraft functions. The initial staffing profile of 16x7 was reduced first to 8x5 and then to 'lights out'. Operations functions became an offline review of system performance and the generation of future science plans for subsequent upload to the spacecraft. Lessons learned will be applied to the challenging Triana mission, where 24x7 contact with the spacecraft will be necessary at all times.
Document ID
20020023390
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Catena, John (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD United States)
Frank, Lou (Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Greenbelt, MD United States)
Saylor, Rick (Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Greenbelt, MD United States)
Weikel, Craig (Computer Sciences Corp. Lanham, MD United States)
Obenschain, Arthur F.
Date Acquired
September 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2001
Subject Category
Astronautics (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: International Telemetric Conference
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Country: United States
Start Date: October 23, 2001
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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