Marshall In-Space and Surface Mission Operations
Marshall Space Flight Center is the leader in conducting end-to-end mission operations for science payloads in low Earth orbit, in cislunar space, on the lunar surface and beyond.
Encyclopedia
Updated Jul 10, 2023
The Payload Operations Integration Center (POIC) after installation of new wall monitors.
Contents
Overview
Mission operations integration and planning
- Autonomous and crewed spacecraft science mission operations concept development
- Expertise in Integrating requirements for multiple experiments into a cohesive schedule of on-orbit activities
- Developing safe and efficient on-orbit and ground command procedures
- Logistics during all flight phases across various delivery schedules and vehicles
- Use of automated tools in support of turnkey mission planning solutions
- Creating individual experiment plans based on specific customers’ needs.
Mission operations training and execution
- Development of science operations curriculum and related instructional design
- Flight and ground controller training and certification
- Payload instructor assessment and training
- Remote science user, ground systems interface and NASA tools training
- Critical thinking, situational awareness, and anomaly response training
- XR (virtual and augmented) training assessment
- Simulation Model Development
State of the art distributed ground systems
- Multiple configurable control rooms to meet the specific needs of any mission, including commercial and international partners.
- Turnkey operations areas, complete connectivity to offsite locations, and ability to host customers’ systems onsite
- State-of-the-art Command and Control, Telemetry, Voice, Video services
- Providing the communications solution and connectivity utilizing established NASA communication assets (e.g. NSN, DSN) and capabilities to expand to commercial vendors
- Cyber Security to include In-house IT/security specialists
- Lights-out automated services for routine command and control operational services
- NASA’s in-house imagery experts
- Data Storage Data Management Facility
- Telescience Resource Kit (TReK) that provides remote command and control services anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
- Exception monitoring and notification
- Remote systems access
- Distributed ground systems routing data to multiple remote sites
Autonomous systems and turnkey science utilization
- Turnkey operations areas, connectivity to offsite locations, and ability to host customers’ systems onsite.
- Access to NASA’s secure and reliable spaceflight networks, with the capability to expand to commercial or Department of Defense facilities.
- 24/7/365 monitoring from a secure and reliable facility, ensures effective interaction between ground ops, crew, and automated/autonomous systems, ensuring successful science mission execution.
- Centralized operations and integration capabilities to maximize return on science investment.
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