Title :
GOAS: a cybertool for spacecraft rendezvous
Author :
Ortega, Guillermo ; Álvarez, Luis
Author_Institution :
Eur. Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Abstract :
The construction of the International Space Station (ISS) has begun. The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European aerospace industry are collaborating on this endeavor. ESA has been developing several prototype systems, which will make available tools and techniques for the European contributions to the ISS program. Among others, ESA is building the automatic transfer vehicle (ATV). The article describes GOAS: the ground operator assistant system. GOAS is a software tool used inside the ATV control center to monitor and re-plan the spacecraft mission. GOAS is a complex rendezvous and docking help for ground operators. GOAS improves and augments mission success and mission safety probabilities.
Keywords :
aerospace control; ground support systems; space vehicles; ESA; European Space Agency; European aerospace industry; GOAS; International Space Station; automatic transfer vehicle; cybertool; docking help; ground operator assistant system; mission safety probabilities; spacecraft mission; spacecraft rendezvous; Aerospace industry; Automatic control; Buildings; Collaboration; HDTV; International Space Station; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Software tools; Space vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4778-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1998.725530
