Launch Support for the Skipper Satellite

Abstract

Support was provided for a person to be at the Utah State Joint Operations Control Center (JOCC) during the flight of the Skipper satellite, and to develop software needed to display the spectrometers' data while the satellite is in orbit. A large amount of engineering and scientific data was to be collected during the flight of the Skipper satellite. These data needed to be reviewed in real time in order to evaluate the health of the satellite's subsystems and then to determine the next most reasonable step in the adaptive orbit strategy that was at the heart of the mission's design. In order to accomplish these ends, the scientific data needed to be disseminated to the members of the science team in absolute units for evaluation and interpretation. These tasks will required the development of specialized software for the conversion of the raw telemetry bit stream into calibrated data for graphic display in engineering units.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 03, 2001
Accession Number
ADA389978

Entities

People

  • Peter Erdman

Organizations

  • University of Pittsburgh

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Bandwidth
  • Calibration
  • Data Sets
  • Detectors
  • Digital Data
  • Engineering
  • High Level Languages
  • Information Operations
  • Instrumentation
  • Language
  • Photometers
  • Sensitivity
  • Spectrometers
  • Telemetry
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Ultraviolet Detectors

Readers

  • Ballistic Missile Meteorology
  • Research Science/Academic Research
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites