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NASA NTRS2007

JPL Power Systems for Current Planned Missions

The viewgraph presentation includes fact sheets, instrument lists, and mission parameters for 13 future missions. Those missions include Moon Mineralogy Mapping (MMM), Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), New Millennium--Space Technology-8 (ST-8), Ocean Salinity Mapping Orbiter (Aquarius), Ocean Surface Topology Mission (OSTM), Asteroid Rendezvous Mission-SEP (Dawn), Mars Scout Lander Mission (Phoenix), Solar Powered Jupiter Orbiter (Juno), Earth orbiting carbon observatory (OCO), planet finder observatory (Kepler), far infrared/sub-millimeter telescope (Hershel), Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), and Mars Science Laboratory-Rover (MSL). The presentation also contains a table of current missions and instruments.

Phoenix↗
NASA NTRS2017

Natural Language Based Multimodal Interface for UAV Mission Planning

As the number of viable applications for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems increases at an exponential rate, interfaces that reduce the reliance on highly skilled engineers and pilots must be developed. Recent work aims to make use of common human communication modalities such as speech and gesture. This paper explores a multimodal natural language interface that uses a combination of speech and gesture input modalities to build complex UAV flight paths by defining trajectory segment primitives. Gesture inputs are used to define the general shape of a segment while speech inputs provide additional geometric information needed to fully characterize a trajectory segment. A user study is conducted in order to evaluate the efficacy of the multimodal interface.

Chandarana, Meghan↗
NASA NTRS2022

TBIRD 200-Gbps CubeSat Downlink: System Architecture and Mission Plan

The Terabyte Infrared Delivery (TBIRD) program will establish an optical communication link from a 6U CubeSat in low-Earth orbit (LEO) to a ground station at burst rates up to 200 Gbps, resulting in data volumes that can exceed 1 Terabyte in a single pass. The space and ground terminals utilize commercially available 1550-nm coherent transceivers in conjunction with an automatic repeat request (ARQ) system to guarantee robust communication in the presence of an atmospheric fading channel. This allows the system to perform a reliable end-toend transfer of data from the payload’s 2-TB storage buffer to the ground terminal. In this paper, we describe the system architecture, link analysis, and concept of operations for the upcoming TBIRD flight demonstration in 2022. We also provide an update on the development of the 3U terminal payload and the ground terminal at JPL’s Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL).

Piazzolla, Sabino↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Artemis III Sleep Scheduling with HYPNOS Mission Planning Tool HLS Yawn Prevention N Outer Space (HYPNOS)

HYPNOS ingests critical event data, such as burns and docking, and automatically shifts the crew’s sleep schedule to support these events where possible, while still being compliant with medical restrictions. HYPNOS analyzes the crew’s timeline in 3 states: 1) Awake, meaning the crew is active for work hours 2) Pre- and Post-Sleep, awake periods of limited activity as the crew gets ready to sleep or is waking up 3) Sleep, where the crew is inactive as they rest

Levi Gosdin↗
NASA NTRS1975

Science planning and mission strategy for the 1979 Jupiter/Uranus opportunity

An intensive science and mission planning effort has been underway for several years to develop the next logical candidate mission to the outer planets following the Mariner Jupiter/Saturn 1977 Mission. The highest priority candidate that emerges from this effort is the launch of a MJS-derived Mariner spacecraft to Uranus during the 1979 Jupiter/Uranus opportunity. Since 1972 when the Outer Planets Science Advisory Group recommended MJU79 to follow MJS77, four other science groups have addressed this issue and arrived at the same recommendation. Currently, the planning effort is most intensive and the paper will report the past and present determinations of the various science and mission planning activities, emphasizing science value, technical factors and fiscal constraints.

Moore, J. W.↗
NASA NTRS2017

Autonomous Science Restart for the Planned Europa Mission with Lightweight Planning and Execution

In this paper we present MEXEC - a lightweight on-board planning and execution system that monitors spacecraft state to robustly respond to current conditions. In addition it projects the remaining plan forward in time to detect conflicts and revise the plan. Most current planetary missions use sequence based commanding from the ground,which limits the ability to respond to on-board state varying from planned for state. This results in planning for worst-case execution time, power utilization, data volume and other resources and leads to under utilization of the spacecraft capability. It also limits the ability to respond to faults. Due to the high radiation environment at Jupiter the probability of flight software resets is high. Therefore, of particular interest to the planned Europa Mission is the capability to restart the science plan after flight software resets. In this paper we present results from running Europa flyby scenarios with flight software resets in the Europa flight software test environment. Preliminary results with the prototype scenario show MEXEC takes less than a tenth of a second to respond to resets. The development was done as part of Europa-focused flight software, but MEXEC was designed to be applicable to landers and rovers as well.

Joshi, Rajeev↗