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Scheduling Spitzer: The SIRPASS StoryNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was launched on August 25, 2003 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Base. Drifting in a unique Earth-trailing orbit around the Sun, Spitzer sees an optically invisible universe dominated by dust and stars. Since 1997, the Spitzer Integrated Resource Planning and Scheduling System (SIRPASS) has helped produce spacecraft activity plans for the Spitzer Space Telescope. SIRPASS is used by members of the Observatory Planning and Scheduling Team to plan, schedule and sequence the Telescope from data made available to them from the science and engineering community. Because of the volume of data that needs to be scheduled, SIRPASS offers a variety of automated assistants to aid in this task. This paper will describe the functional elements of the SIRPASS software system -- emphasizing the role that automation plays in the system -- and will highlight lessons learned for the software developer from a decade of Spitzer Space Telescope operations experience.
Document ID
20150008007
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Mittman, David S.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Hawkins, Robert
(Space Telescope Science Inst. Baltimore, MD, United States)
Date Acquired
May 12, 2015
Publication Date
March 25, 2013
Subject Category
Computer Programming And Software
Astronautics (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: 2013 International Workshop on Planning & Scheduling for Space
Location: Moffett Field, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: March 25, 2013
End Date: March 27, 2013
Sponsors: NASA Ames Research Center
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
flight systems
spacecraft
ground-based systems

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