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Squibb, Gael F.

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NASA NTRS1996

NASA operations: An agency wide approach to reduce cost

The NASA Space Operations Management Office (SOMO) is presented. The SOMO concept is based on continuing the distributed participation of the various NASA field centers and agencies, while employing consolidated management through a single lead center. The aim is to determine the duplicity and the overlap between the different agencies that independently developed their own operations management approaches in order to enable more cost effective mission operations by providing common services to the NASA programs. The space operations management will be performed in a distributed manner with a greater degree of contractor involvement than in the past. The changes, approaches and anticipated benefits of this approach to operations are discussed.

Squibb, Gael F.↗
NASA NTRS1996

Autonomy metrics

Space missions are currently being designed and developed to rely on increased spacecraft autonomy in order to achieve lower cost operations and to support the fleets of planetary spacecraft with limited deep space network resources. In relation to this, metrics are presented which quantitatively define spacecraft autonomy and will be used to: set measurable autonomy goals for future missions; evaluate and compare the benefits between competing automation technologies, and to compare autonomy between missions. The metrics measure the degree to which spacecraft and space mission designs lead to: longer periods of no-track; shorter track periods; reduced ground-orbit communications, and smaller operations workforces. The results of a survey applying these metrics to historic missions and to planned future missions are reported on, illustrating the differences between the autonomy achieved by previous missions and that predicted for future missions.

Carraway, John B.↗
NASA NTRS1996

Autonomy Metrics

The results of a survey applying these metrics to historic missions and planned future missions are charted, showing rather startling differences between autonomy achieved by missions that have already flown vs. autonomy predicted by some missions that have yet to fly.

spacecraft↗
NASA NTRS1996

Space Mission Operations Concept

This paper will discuss the concept of developing a space mission operations concept; the benefits of starting this system engineering task early; the neccessary inputs to the process; and the products that are generated.

mission operations system engineering↗
NASA NTRS1995

Functions Performed by Mission Operations

We propose the series of three presentations described above for inclusion in your symposium. These presentations are similar to those we presented last November in plenary session at the Third International Symposium on Space Mission Operations and Ground Data Systems. Each presentation lasts 40 minutes and the presentations are designed to be given in order. The information in our presentations is extracted from a book of the same title scheduled for publication in August, 1995. Please note that since we have a book covering this topic, we will not prepare separate papers. An overview of each presentation is shown below.

Cost-Effective Mission↗