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Mission Planning and Scheduling System for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance MissionIn the framework of NASA's return to the Moon efforts, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is the first step. It is an unmanned mission to create a comprehensive atlas of the Moon's features and resources necessary to design and build a lunar outpost. LRO is scheduled for launch in April, 2009. LRO carries a payload comprised of six instruments and one technology demonstration. In addition to its scientific mission LRO will use new technologies, systems and flight operations concepts to reduce risk and increase productivity of future missions. As part of the effort to achieve robust and efficient operations, the LRO Mission Operations Team (MOT) will use its Mission Planning System (MPS) to manage the operational activities of the mission during the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) and operational phases of the mission. The MPS, based on GMV's flexplan tool and developed for NASA with Honeywell Technology Solutions (prime contractor), will receive activity and slew maneuver requests from multiple science operations centers (SOC), as well as from the spacecraft engineers. flexplan will apply scheduling rules to all the requests received and will generate conflict free command schedules in the form of daily stored command loads for the orbiter and a set of daily pass scripts that help automate nominal real-time operations.
Document ID
20090005028
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Garcia, Gonzalo
(GMV Space Systems, Inc. Rockville, MD, United States)
Barnoy, Assaf
(GMV Space Systems, Inc. Rockville, MD, United States)
Beech, Theresa
(GMV Space Systems, Inc. Rockville, MD, United States)
Saylor, Rick
(Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Lanham, MD, United States)
Cosgrove, Jennifer Sager
(Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc. Lanham, MD, United States)
Ritter, Sheila
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
March 23, 2009
Subject Category
Astronautics (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: Ground Systems Architecture Workshop (GSAW)
Location: Torrence, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: March 23, 2009
End Date: March 26, 2009
Sponsors: Aerospace Corp.
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG04DA01C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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