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THe Mars Exploration Rover Collaborative Information Portal (MERCIP) provides a window to all mission events. It supports mission updates, data sharing, and collaboration. The report also discusses: Technology spotlight. Integrating data multiple sources. Securing access for multiple clients. A new information infrastructure.
As NASA probes deeper into space, the distance between sensor and scientist increases, as does the time delay. NASA needs to close that gap, while integrating more spacecraft types and missions-from near-Earth orbit to deep space. To speed and integrate communications from space missions to scientists on Earth and back again. NASA needs a comprehensive, high-performance communications network. To this end, the CICT Programs Space Communications (SC) Project is providing technologies for building the Space Internet which will consist of large backbone network, mid-size access networks linked to the backbones, and smaller, ad-hoc network linked to the access network. A key component will be mobile, wireless networks for spacecraft flying in different configurations.
The CICT Program's Space Communications (SC) Project is responsible for developing technologies that deliver data quickly between Earth and space, and directly to users. To achieve this ambitious goal. the SC Project is providing technologies for building the Space Internet, which will require back-bone networks that pass data from one infrastructure to another. These infrastructures include the Earth-based wide-area and local-area networks. NASAs Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) that provides links between low-earth orbiting spacecraft, and the ground planetary networks, and the Deep Space Network (DSN).
SemanticOrganizer enables researchers in different locations to share, search for, and integrate data. Its customizable semantic links offer fast access to interrelated information. This knowledge management and information integration tool also supports real-time instrument data collection and collaborative image annotation.
Brahms is a multi-agent modeling and simulation language and distributed runtime system developed at NASA. It can be used to model and run a simualtion of the distributed work activities of multiple agents, such as humans,robots, and software agents, to coordinate a mission on one or more locations.Brahms is being used to model activities at the Flashline Man Arctic Research Station for possible use in planning Mars missions. The station is located at Haughton Crater, Devon Island, Nutiavut, Arctic Canada.