New Human-Computer Interface Concepts for Mission Operations: by Jeffrey A. Fox

By Fox, Jeffrey A.

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Title:	New Human-Computer Interface Concepts for Mission Operations: by Jeffrey A. Fox
Author:	Fox, Jeffrey A.
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Language:	English
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Excerpt: The current climate of budget cuts has forced the space mission operations community to reconsider how it does business. Gone are the days of building one-of-kind control centers with teams of controllers working in shifts 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Increasingly, automation is used to significantly reduce staffing needs. In some cases, missions are moving towards lights-out operations where the ground system is run semi-autonomously. On-call operators are brought in only to resolve anomalies. Some operations concepts also call for smaller operations teams to manage an entire family of spacecraft. In the not too distant future, a skeleton crew of full-time general knowledge operators will oversee the operations of large constellations of small spacecraft, while geographically distributed specialists will be assigned to emergency response teams based on their expertise...