Space environment information system for mission control purposes: real-time monitoring and inference of spacecraft status

Space weather has been directly and indirectly identified as the source for a large percentage of spacecraft abnormal behaviours (through high radiation levels emissions, solar flares and magnetically induced fields). Nowadays spacecraft control teams lack the assistance of a system that can provide real-time information on space weather conditions, and real-time inferred spacecraft status assessment. Furthermore, the spacecraft control team would benefit from a system that could provide them the ability to visualize both real-time and forecasted space weather data and events, and spacecraft real-time and forecasted telemetry data. The space environment information system for mission control purposes is an ambitious system being developed for the European Space Agency, which aims at deploying a solution for the problems and needs mentioned above. The space environment information system is therefore a decision support system, which by integrating huge amounts of data from heterogeneous space weather and spacecraft data sources, not only provides real-time data loading, and real-time visualization, but also generates added spacecraft knowledge based on real-time inference capabilities.