International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / This paper presents a new architecture of the end-to-end ground system to reduce overall
mission support costs. The present ground system of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
is costly to operate, maintain, deploy, reproduce, and document. In the present climate of
shrinking NASA budgets, this proposed architecture takes on added importance as it will
dramatically reduce all of the above costs. Currently, the ground support functions (i.e.,
receiver, tracking, ranging, telemetry, command, monitor and control) are distributed
among several subsystems that are housed in individual rack-mounted chassis. These
subsystems can be integrated into one portable laptop system using established
MultiChip Module (MCM) packaging technology. The large scale integration of
subsystems into a small portable system will greatly reduce operations, maintenance and
reproduction costs. Several of the subsystems can be implemented using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products further decreasing non-recurring engineering costs. The
inherent portability of the system will open up new ways for using the ground system at
the “point-of-use” site as opposed to maintaining several large centralized stations. This
eliminates the propagation delay of the data to the Principal Investigator (PI), enabling
the capture of data in real-time and performing multiple tasks concurrently from any
location in the world. Sample applications are to use the portable ground system in
remote areas or mobile vessels for real-time correlation of satellite data with earth-bound
instruments; thus, allowing near real-time feedback and control of scientific
instruments. This end-to-end portable ground system will undoubtedly create
opportunities for better scientific observation and data acquisition.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/607606 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Lam, Barbara |
| Contributors | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| 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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