Project Golden Gate: addressing the challenges of space mission software
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This paper discusses the future possibility of a single mission to map an entire planet, compared to the few percent of the surface that can be mapped by today's missions.
For interplanetary spacecraft that will travel to destinations where future life detection experiments may be conducted or samples are to be returned to earth, we should archive and preserve relevant samples from the spacecraft and cleanrooms for evaluation at a future date.
This paper adresses a technique for performing accurate ranging with a noncoherent system.
One means of achieving high reliability with cryogenic payloads involving cryocoolers is to incorporate redundancy, either in the form of redundant coolers and/or redundant drive electronics.
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Recent automated and advanced techniques developed at JPL have created a streamlined and fast-track approach to initial mission conceptualization and system architecture design, answering the need for rapid turnaround of trade studies for potential proposers, as well as mission and instrument study groups.
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This paper forms a perspective of how new technologies such as onboard autonomy and internet-like protocols will change the look and feel of operations. It analyzes the concept of a lights-out mission operations control center and it's role in future mission support and it describes likely scenarios for evolving from current concepts.
Standardization of interfaces between on board spacecraft subsystems, operation control centers, and ground terminals is seen as a way to reduce overall mission development, integration and operations costs.
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