Space missions of the 21st Century will be characterized by constellations of distributed spacecraft, miniaturized sensors and satellites, increased levels of automation, intelligent onboard processing, and mission autonomy. Programmatically, these missions will be noted for dramatically decreased budgets and mission development lifecycles. Current progress towards flexible, scaleable, low-cost, reusable mission control systems must accelerate given the current mission deployment schedule, and new technology will need to be infused to achieve desired levels of autonomy and processing capability. This paper will discuss current and future missions being managed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. It will describe the current state of mission control systems and the problems they need to overcome to support the missions of the 21st Century.


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    Title :

    Grand Challenge Problems in Real-Time Mission Control Systems for NASA's 21st Century Missions


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    Conference:

    Real-Time Mission-Critical Systems ; 1999 ; Phoenix, AZ, United States


    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English