As the Cassini spacecraft embarked on the Solstice Mission in October 2010, the flight operations team faced a significant challenge in planning and executing the continuing tour of the Saturnian system. Faced with budget cuts that reduced the science and engineering staff by over a third in size, new and streamlined processes had to be developed to allow the Cassini mission to maintain a high level of science data return with a lower amount of available resources while still minimizing the risk. Automation was deemed an important key in enabling mission operations with reduced workforce and the Cassini flight team has made this goal a priority for the Solstice Mission. The operations team learned about a utility called AUTORAD which would ...
The Cassini spacecraft was launched on October 15, 1997 and arrived at Saturn on June 30, 2004. It h...
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission developed and deployed a system to autonomously hand...
For long-lived missions such as Mars Express, operating at considerable distances from Earth, the pa...
"Support imaging" is imagery requested by other Cassini science teams to aid in the interpretation o...
The Cassini Uplink Scheduler (CASSIUS) is cross-platform software used to generate a radiation seque...
The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan, a joint venture between the National Aeronautics an...
To keep Cassini on its complex trajectory, more than 200 orbit trim maneuvers (OTMs) have been plann...
The Cassini spacecraft was launched on October 15, 1997 and arrived at Saturn on June 30, 2004. It h...
NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres launched September 27, 2007 and arr...
The Cassini project employs a concept known as distributed operations which allows independent instr...
The Cassini Program's challenge is to fly a large, complex mission with a reduced operations budget....
Operating spacecraft is a never-ending challenge and the risk of human error is ever- present. Many ...
The Orbital Express space mission was a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) lead demon...
The Cassini team uses a variety of software utilities as they manage and coordinate their mission to...
A common goal for satellite operations is to achieve a level of automation that minimizes human inte...
The Cassini spacecraft was launched on October 15, 1997 and arrived at Saturn on June 30, 2004. It h...
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission developed and deployed a system to autonomously hand...
For long-lived missions such as Mars Express, operating at considerable distances from Earth, the pa...
"Support imaging" is imagery requested by other Cassini science teams to aid in the interpretation o...
The Cassini Uplink Scheduler (CASSIUS) is cross-platform software used to generate a radiation seque...
The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan, a joint venture between the National Aeronautics an...
To keep Cassini on its complex trajectory, more than 200 orbit trim maneuvers (OTMs) have been plann...
The Cassini spacecraft was launched on October 15, 1997 and arrived at Saturn on June 30, 2004. It h...
NASA’s Dawn mission to the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres launched September 27, 2007 and arr...
The Cassini project employs a concept known as distributed operations which allows independent instr...
The Cassini Program's challenge is to fly a large, complex mission with a reduced operations budget....
Operating spacecraft is a never-ending challenge and the risk of human error is ever- present. Many ...
The Orbital Express space mission was a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) lead demon...
The Cassini team uses a variety of software utilities as they manage and coordinate their mission to...
A common goal for satellite operations is to achieve a level of automation that minimizes human inte...
The Cassini spacecraft was launched on October 15, 1997 and arrived at Saturn on June 30, 2004. It h...
The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission developed and deployed a system to autonomously hand...
For long-lived missions such as Mars Express, operating at considerable distances from Earth, the pa...