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Distributed Operations PlanningMaestro software provides a secure and distributed mission planning system for long-term missions in general, and the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) specifically. Maestro, the successor to the Science Activity Planner, has a heavy emphasis on portability and distributed operations, and requires no data replication or expensive hardware, instead relying on a set of services functioning on JPL institutional servers. Maestro works on most current computers with network connections, including laptops. When browsing down-link data from a spacecraft, Maestro functions similarly to being on a Web browser. After authenticating the user, it connects to a database server to query an index of data products. It then contacts a Web server to download and display the actual data products. The software also includes collaboration support based upon a highly reliable messaging system. Modifications made to targets in one instance are quickly and securely transmitted to other instances of Maestro. The back end that has been developed for Maestro could benefit many future missions by reducing the cost of centralized operations system architecture.
Document ID
20100011230
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Other - NASA Tech Brief
Authors
Fox, Jason
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Norris, Jeffrey
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Powell, Mark
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Rabe, Kenneth
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Shams, Khawaja
(California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 2007
Publication Information
Publication: NASA Tech Briefs, November 2007
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Report/Patent Number
NPO-43278
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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