International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / This paper discusses the telemetry processing and data verification performed by the SBV
Processing, Operations and Control Center (SPOCC) located at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
(MIT LL). The SPOCC is unique among the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) Data
Processing Centers because it supports operational demonstrations of the SBV sensor for
Space-Based Space Surveillance applications. The surveillance experiment objectives
focus on tracking of resident space objects (RSOs), including acquisition of newly
launched satellites. Since Space Surveillance operations have fundamentally short
timelines, the SPOCC must be deeply involved in the mission planning for the series of
observations and must receive and process the resulting data quickly. In order to achieve
these objectives, the MSX Concept of Operations (CONOPS) has been developed to
include the SPOCC in the operations planning process. The SPOCC is responsible for
generating all MSX spacecraft command information required to execute space
surveillance events using the MSX. This operating agreement and a highly automated
planning system at the SPOCC allow the planning timeline objectives to be met. In
addition, the Space Surveillance experiment scenarios call for active use of the 1 Mbps
real-time link to transmit processed targets tracks from the SBV to the SPOCC for
processing and for short time-line response of the SPOCC to process the track of the new
object and produce new commands for the MSX spacecraft, or other space surveillance
sensors, to re-acquire the object. To accomplish this, surveillance data processed and
stored onboard the SBV is transmitted to the APL Mission Processing Center via 1 Mbps
contacts with the dedicated Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) station, or via one of the
AFSCN RTS locations, which forwards the telemetry in real-time to APL. The Mission
Processing facility at APL automatically processes the MSX telemetry to extract the SBV
allocation and forwards the data via file transfer over a dedicated fractional T1 link to the
SPOCC. The data arriving at the SPOCC is automatically identified and processed to yield
calibrated metric observations of RSOs. These results are then fed forward into the
mission planning process for follow-up observations. In addition to the experiment support discussed above, the SPOCC monitors and stores
SBV housekeeping data, monitors payload health and status, and supports diagnosis and
correction. There are also software tools which support the assessment of the results of
surveillance experiments and to produce a number of products used by the SBV instrument
team to assess the overall performance characteristics of the SBV instrument.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/608395 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Stokes, Grant H., Viggh, Herbert E.M., Pollock, J. Kent |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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