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Intensive Care for Premature Satellites

Lesch, Tobias and Wickler, Martin and Spörl, Andreas (2017) Intensive Care for Premature Satellites. 68th International Astronautical Congress, 2017-09-25 - 2017-09-29, Adelaide, Australien.

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Abstract

The German Space Operations Center (GSOC) as part of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) gained a lot of experience with projects requiring an iterative ground segment development and operations approach. Typical challenges are a series of software uploads, flexible commanding, tests on short notice and completing the workflow implementation and documentation during operations. Validated flight procedures and operation rules are established in parallel to prepare for further tests and routine operations. This paper presents the GSOC experience on how to handle these challenges based on the small satellite mission Firebird. If the control center can only partially prepare for the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP), Commissioning and Routine operations, many tasks of these phases are shifted to after launch. It is then crucial to adapt the operations plan and choose an agile development approach to succeed in the mission. Control centers have standards for management, quality assurance and operation processes either from in-house or derived from standards like the European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS). But there is a high risk of failure when trying to apply the same standards and rules to a project like Firebird. Therefore, rethinking and new development approaches are required to maintain safe, effective and efficient satellite operations. Supporting these kinds of projects from an operations point of view is a phenomenon which is becoming increasingly common. Limited resources for satellite manufacturing, more requirements to fulfill, technical challenges to overcome and tight schedules to make are reasons for this trend. The paper presents lessons learned at GSOC to turn these types of missions into a success, in particular by diminishing the possible negative effects on mission operations during the early stages of such a project.

Item URL in elib:https://elib.dlr.de/116632/
Document Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Title:Intensive Care for Premature Satellites
Authors:
AuthorsInstitution or Email of AuthorsAuthor's ORCID iDORCID Put Code
Lesch, TobiasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Wickler, MartinUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Spörl, AndreasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Date:25 September 2017
Refereed publication:No
Open Access:No
Gold Open Access:No
In SCOPUS:No
In ISI Web of Science:No
Status:Published
Keywords:Operations, Satellite, Firebird, BIROS
Event Title:68th International Astronautical Congress
Event Location:Adelaide, Australien
Event Type:international Conference
Event Start Date:25 September 2017
Event End Date:29 September 2017
HGF - Research field:Aeronautics, Space and Transport
HGF - Program:Space
HGF - Program Themes:Earth Observation
DLR - Research area:Raumfahrt
DLR - Program:R EO - Earth Observation
DLR - Research theme (Project):R - Projekt FireBIRD (old)
Location: Oberpfaffenhofen
Institutes and Institutions:Space Operations and Astronaut Training > Mission Operations
Deposited By: Lesch, Tobias
Deposited On:06 Dec 2017 15:42
Last Modified:24 Apr 2024 20:21

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