Centralized mission planning and scheduling system for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission
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Abstract
Satellites in Low Earth Orbit provide missions with closer range for studying aspects such as geography and topography, but often require efficient utilization of space and ground assets. Optimizing schedules for these satellites amounts to a complex planning puzzle since it requires operators to face issues such as discontinuous ground contacts, limited onboard memory storage, constrained downlink margin, and shared ground antenna resources. To solve this issue for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM, Landsat 8), all the scheduling exchanges for science data request, ground/space station contact, and spacecraft maintenance and control will be coordinated through a centralized Mission Planning and Scheduling (MPS) engine, based upon GMV’s scheduling system flexplan9 . The synchronization between all operational functions must be strictly maintained to ensure efficient mission utilization of ground and spacecraft activities while working within the bounds of the space and ground resources, such as Solid State Recorder (SSR) and available antennas. This paper outlines the functionalities that the centralized planning and scheduling system has in its operational control and management of the Landsat 8 spacecraft.
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Centralized mission planning and scheduling system for the Landsat Data Continuity Mission |
| DOI | 10.2514/6.2014-1642 |
| Year Published | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 9 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | SpaceOps 2014 Conference |
| Conference Title | SpaceOps 2014 Conference |
| Conference Location | Pasadena, CA |
| Conference Date | May 5-9, 2014 |
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