The design and implementation of the MESSENGER trajectory database

Author

Gill, Joseph ; Burge, Legand ; Garuba, Moses

Author_Institution

Howard Univ., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

5-7 April 2004

Firstpage

557

Abstract

The MESSENGER trajectory database provides an informative and captivating means of depicting the planned trajectory and mission plan for NASA´s MESSENGER Mercury Orbiter Discovery mission scheduled to launch in 2004. The database comprises state of the art in information retrieval techniques to effectively serve the MESSENGER development and operations team, educators, students, broadcast media, and the general public. In addition, database contains features to minimize site maintenance through automation and the creation of standard format files during development and post-launch operation. In this paper we discuss the design and implementation of the MESSENGER trajectory database. In particular, we discuss the architectural design and its integration with NAIF´s SPICE toolkit using, XML and J2EE technologies.

Keywords

aerospace computing; hypermedia markup languages; scientific information systems; space vehicles; J2EE; JSP; Java; MESSENGER development; MESSENGER trajectory database; NASA MESSENGER Mercury Orbiter Discovery mission; SPICE; XML; XSLT; architectural design; data mining; information retrieval; mission plan; planned trajectory; servlets; standard format files; Broadcasting; Information retrieval; Instruments; Kernel; Planets; SPICE; Space vehicles; Spatial databases; Trajectory; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2004. Proceedings. ITCC 2004. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2108-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286522

Filename

1286522