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Orbital Express Mission Operations Planning and Resource Management using ASPENAs satellite equipment and mission operations become more costly, the drive to keep working equipment running with less man-power rises.Demonstrating the feasibility of autonomous satellite servicing was the main goal behind the Orbital Express (OE) mission. Planning the satellite mission operations for OE required the ability to create a plan which could be executed autonomously over variable conditions. The Automated-Scheduling and Planning Environment (ASPEN)tool, developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was used to create the schedule of events in each daily plan for the two satellites of the OE mission. This paper presents an introduction to the ASPEN tool, the constraints of the OE domain, the variable conditions that were presented within the mission, and the solution to operations that ASPEN provided. ASPEN has been used in several other domains, including research rovers, Deep Space Network scheduling research, and in flight operations for the ASE project's EO1 satellite. Related work is discussed, as are the future of ASPEN and the future of autonomous satellite servicing.
Document ID
20090039494
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Chouinard, Caroline
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Knight, Russell
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Jones, Grailing
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Tran, Daniel
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
March 16, 2008
Subject Category
Space Sciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Defense and Security, Orlando, Florida, March 16, 2008
Location: Orlando, FL
Country: United States
Start Date: March 16, 2008
End Date: March 20, 2008
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
Automated Scheduling and Planning Environment (ASPEN)
Orbital Express (OE) mission
autonomous satellite servicing

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