SpaceCAPS: Automated Mission Planning for the TechSat 21 Formation-Flying Cluster Experiment

Abstract

This paper describes a project concerned with the development of a mission planning system to provide automated planning assistance for the Air Force TechSat 21 formation-flying satellite cluster experiment: Spacecraft Cluster Automatic Planner/Scheduler (SpaceCAPS). The project's focus is on planning and scheduling for payload management, but the system serves as a central planning system for planning and scheduling of all spacecraft functions. The paper describes some of the planning and scheduling requirements for cluster payload management, and describes a system for optimization of the mission plan for the TechSat 21 space-based radar surveillance system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA440102

Entities

People

  • John L. Mohammed

Organizations

  • Stottler Henke Associates

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Control Systems
  • Data Centers
  • Earth Orbits
  • Geometry
  • Ground Stations
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Microsatellites
  • Orbits
  • Payload
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Space Based
  • Space Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Robotics and Automation.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites
  • Space - Space Objects
  • Space - Spacecraft Maneuvers