The relationship between ground data systems and flight operations for the Aura project TES instrument

Author

Tyler, Steven R. ; Varanasi, Padma

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

While Ground Data systems are normally thought of primarily in terms of processors of Science and Calibration data, they are also used by Instrument Operations teams. This paper briefly outlines Aura´s Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) experiment and TES Instrument Operations activities. It describes the data used to trend the health, status, and performance of the TES instrument, which are routed to the TES Instrument Operations Team (IOT) by the Ground Data system. TES is a typical in that it has some engineering data that are available only in the high rate data stream, rather than in low-rate engineering data. Blocks of commands to perform anticipated TES tasks were developed in parallel with TES flight software design. This paper concludes by showing how this early development of command blocks permitted significantly more flexibility in resolving a variety of TES Operations issues

Keywords

aerospace computing; atmospheric techniques; calibration; data handling; geophysics computing; ground support systems; ozone; troposphere; Aura project; Earth observing instruments; Ground Data system; JPL; TES Instrument Operations Team; flight operations; ground data systems; high rate data stream; tropospheric Fourier spectrometer; Aerospace engineering; Atmospheric measurements; Data engineering; Data systems; Earth Observing System; Extraterrestrial measurements; Instruments; Laboratories; Propulsion; Spectroscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2001, IEEE Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6599-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2001.931462

Filename

931462