CCSDS Mission Planning And Scheduling Services Opening Door For Cross-Agency Interoperability

Kurzfassung

Mission Planning and Scheduling are integral parts of Mission Operations and closely related to the other aspects of the overall Monitoring and Control of space missions. Mission Planning is an activity that often requires interaction between multiple entities, where also cross-agency collaborations could potentially be facilitated. In the absence of commonly agreed international space standards for typical mission planning and scheduling exchange interfaces, the current approach is to define such interfaces on a per-mission or per-agency basis. This hinders the potential for reuse and increases the development and operations costs due to proliferation of implementations of the same functionality in different contexts. The Mission Planning and Scheduling (MPS) Working Group (WG) of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) has been formed in 2015, with the current participation from 8 space agencies. The MPS WG has the objective of specifying generic, interoperable mission planning and scheduling interfaces. This paper will provide an overview of the current progress of the standardization work in this area. It will depict an outline of the comprehensive Information Model that has been worked out by the MPS WG and will describe the Services Specification for exchange of the relevant information.