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Spaceflight Operations Services Grid (SOSG) Prototype Implementation and Feasibility StudyScience Operations Services Grid is focusing on building a prototype grid-based environment that incorporates existing and new spaceflight services to enable current and future NASA programs with cost savings and new and evolvable methods to conduct science in a distributed environment. The Science Operations Services Grid (SOSG) will provide a distributed environment for widely disparate organizations to conduct their systems and processes in a more efficient and cost effective manner. These organizations include those that: 1) engage in space-based science and operations, 2) develop space-based systems and processes, and 3) conduct scientific research, bringing together disparate scientific disciplines like geology and oceanography to create new information. In addition educational outreach will be significantly enhanced by providing to schools the same tools used by NASA with the ability of the schools to actively participate on many levels in the science generated by NASA from space and on the ground. The services range from voice, video and telemetry processing and display to data mining, high level processing and visualization tools all accessible from a single portal. In this environment, users would not require high end systems or processes at their home locations to use these services. Also, the user would need to know minimal details about the applications in order to utilize the services. In addition, security at all levels is an underlying goal of the project. The Science Operations Services Grid will focus on four tools that are currently used by the ISS Payload community along with nine more that are new to the community. Under the prototype four Grid virtual organizations PO) will be developed to represent four types of users. They are a Payload (experimenters) VO, a Flight Controllers VO, an Engineering and Science Collaborators VO and an Education and Public Outreach VO. The User-based services will be implemented to replicate the operational voice, video, telemetry and commanding systems. Once the User-based services are in place, they will be analyzed to establish feasibility for Grid enabling. If feasible then each User-based service will be Grid enabled. The remaining non-Grid services if not already Web enabled will be so enabled. In the end, four portals will be developed one for each VO. Each portal will contain the appropriate User-based services required for that VO to operate.
Document ID
20040161581
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Bradford, Robert N.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Thigpen, William W.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Lisotta, Anthony J.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Redman, Sandra
(Alabama Univ. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 22, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Avionics And Aircraft Instrumentation
Meeting Information
Meeting: 55th International Astronautical Congress
Location: Vancouver
Country: Canada
Start Date: October 4, 2004
End Date: October 8, 2004
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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