Benefits of Using Innovative Tools for Diagnostics and Planning in ESA Mission Operations

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1159-1166
Author(s):  
Alessandro Donati ◽  
◽  
Jose Antonio Martinez-Heras ◽  
Nicola Policella
Keyword(s):  
European Space Agency ◽  
Mission Planning ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Space Operations ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Level Information ◽  
High Level ◽  
Mission Operations ◽  
Operational Impact

Future European Space Agency (ESA) space missions are demanding and driving new operations concepts for increased on-board autonomy, for flexible and robust planning and scheduling services, and for ground capabilities to agglomerate and process a huge amount of downlinked data (e.g., tens of thousands of telemetry parameters) to extract high-level information and knowledge. Mission control will have to cope with maintaining and programming challenging missions such as interplanetary probes, complex scientific missions, and a constellation of earth-observation missions. The process of innovation in these areas is already progressing at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of the ESA, and this paper highlights specific achievements and trends in the area of spacecraft diagnosis and mission planning and scheduling by making use of a variety of technologies and techniques. The discussion then focuses on the tools’ operational impact and on the expected trends in the future.

Deploying Interactive Mission Planning Tools- Experiences and Lessons Learned -

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 1149-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amedeo Cesta ◽  
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Gabriella Cortellessa ◽  
Simone Fratini ◽  
Angelo Oddi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
User Interaction ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Mission Planning ◽  
Domain Modeling ◽  
Planning And Scheduling ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Key Points

This article contains a retrospective overview of connected work performed for the European Space Agency (ESA) over a span of 10 years. We have been creating and refining an AI approach to problem solving and have infused a series of deployed planning and scheduling systems which have innovated the agency’s mission planning practice. The goal of this paper is to identify strong features of this experience, comment on general lessons learned and offer guidelines for work practice of the future. Specifically, the work considers some key points that have contributed to strengthening the effectiveness of our approach for the development of an end-to-end methodology to field applications: the attention to domain modeling, the constraint-based algorithm synthesis and the relevance of user interaction services.

III. Metallurgy: The proposed French metallurgy programme for Spacelab

1978 ◽  
Vol 361 (1705) ◽  
pp. 165-174 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Growth ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Zero Gravity ◽  
Industrial Community ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Space Experiments ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

The call for ideas for the first Spacelab payload issued from the European Space Agency (E.S.A.) obtained in France a fairly high level of success from the government agencies but almost no answers from the industrial community. This situation, which arose despite knowledge of some early but very promising results of the first space experiments, seems to be correlated with the absence of any guarantee about the future Law of Space, and consequently has orientated the French metallurgy experiments to more academic and less applied speculations. We shall describe the actions of the French Space Agency (C.N.E.S.) to decide which experiments would be officially supported by C.N.E.S. if accepted by E.S.A. In the particular field of metallurgy, six proposals were so selected which have been proposed to E.S.A. for the first Spacelab payload. We shall present the arguments which defended those proposals and as a function of the preliminary analysis of some similar U.S. experiments we shall try to detect some of the possible difficulties in performing them and to foresee the main results which we expect. Special emphasis will be laid on the thermodiffusion and nucleation experiments, the study of which is basic for many crystal growth or metallurgy experiments in a zero-gravity environment.

Harry Elliot CBE. 28 June 1920 — 5 July 2009

2011 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 97-127
Author(s):  
David Southwood
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Space Science ◽  
Space Research ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
International Geophysical Year ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level

Harry Elliot, a pioneer of British space science and known worldwide for his work on cosmic rays, passed away in July 2009. Coming from a farming family in the Anglo-Scottish borders, he entered Manchester University at the outbreak of war. After service in the Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force, he returned to Manchester to work with Patrick Blackett on the origin of primary cosmic rays, a scientific pursuit he followed for the rest of his career. In 1954 he moved with Blackett to Imperial College. After playing an important part in the International Geophysical Year, the dawn of the space age gave him the opportunity to be the originator of one of the major British space research groups. Subsequently, through his long-standing service at high level in the UK Science Research Council, the European Space Research Organisation and the European Space Agency, he played an important part in steering the development of British astronomical facilities as well as the evolution of European space science.

scholarly journals How Do Astronaut Candidate Profiles Differ From Airline Pilot Profiles?

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Maschke ◽  
Viktor Oubaid ◽  
Yvonne Pecena
Keyword(s):  
Phase 1 ◽  
European Space Agency ◽  
Interpersonal Behavior ◽  
Performance Tests ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
The Third ◽  
Airline Pilot ◽  
Space Agency ◽  
Scientific Experiments ◽  
High Level

Sixteen years after the second Europe-wide astronaut selection campaign, the European Space Agency started the third campaign by putting out a call for new astronauts in 2008. Due to extreme environmental conditions, expensive scientific experiments, and high public interest, not only are the psychological requirements on a high level, but they are also wide in variety: Besides cognitive and psychomotor requirements, greater importance than in comparable campaigns was put on personality and behavioral aspects, especially regarding interpersonal aspects. The psychological selection was conducted in two steps: Phase 1 concentrated mainly on performance tests and Phase 2 focused on personality and interpersonal behavior. Out of the 902 tested candidates, 46 fulfilled the psychological requirements. Significant differences were found between the astronaut candidates and the general population as well as airline pilot candidates.

scholarly journals Inference of Mood State Indices by Using a Multimodal High-Level Information Fusion Technique

IEEE Access ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Chih-Hua Tai ◽  
Kuo-Hsuan Chung ◽  
Ya-Wen Teng ◽  
Feng-Ming Shu ◽  
Yue-Shan Chang
Keyword(s):  
Information Fusion ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Fusion Technique ◽  
Level Information ◽  
Information Fusion Technique ◽  
High Level
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