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A Distributed Simulation Software System for Multi-Spacecraft MissionsThe paper will provide an overview of the web-based distributed simulation software system developed for end-to-end, multi-spacecraft mission design, analysis, and test at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). This software system was developed for an internal research and development (IR&D) activity at GSFC called the Distributed Space Systems (DSS) Distributed Synthesis Environment (DSE). The long-term goal of the DSS-DSE is to integrate existing GSFC stand-alone test beds, models, and simulation systems to create a "hands on", end-to-end simulation environment for mission design, trade studies and simulations. The short-term goal of the DSE was therefore to develop the system architecture, and then to prototype the core software simulation capability based on a distributed computing approach, with demonstrations of some key capabilities by the end of Fiscal Year 2002 (FY02). To achieve the DSS-DSE IR&D objective, the team adopted a reference model and mission upon which FY02 capabilities were developed. The software was prototyped according to the reference model, and demonstrations were conducted for the reference mission to validate interfaces, concepts, etc. The reference model, illustrated in Fig. 1, included both space and ground elements, with functional capabilities such as spacecraft dynamics and control, science data collection, space-to-space and space-to-ground communications, mission operations, science operations, and data processing, archival and distribution addressed.
Document ID
20030053420
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Burns, Richard
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Davis, George
(Emergent Space Technologies, LLC United States)
Cary, Everett
(Emergent Space Technologies, LLC United States)
Date Acquired
August 21, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2003
Subject Category
Computer Systems
Meeting Information
Meeting: AIAA Modeling and Simulation
Location: San Antonio, TX
Country: United States
Start Date: August 1, 2003
Sponsors: American Inst. of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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