Real-Time Decision Support System for Space Missions Control

- Space weather refers to conditions on the sun and in the solar wind, magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based technological systems and that affect human life or health[1]. Such influence is particularly strong on spacecrafts by reducing the mission lifetime and causing long periods of instrument's unavailability. Understanding the cause-effect relation between space weather events and spacecrafts anomalies is a very important task but also a very complex one, which requires a multidisciplinary approach and is a long-term goal. Meanwhile, nowadays most mission control teams are supported by different and non-integrated systems providing telemetry and space weather information. However, they require better information availability, integrating space weather and spacecraft data, including past, current and forecasted data. This paper outlines a decision support system which in addition to the dat...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IKE
• Authors: João Moura Pires, Marta Pantoquilho, Nuno Viana
• Keywords: IKE 2004, IKE 2007, Space Weather, Space Weather Events, Spacecraft