GOAS: a cybertool for spacecraft rendezvous

Author

Ortega, Guillermo ; Álvarez, Luis

Author_Institution

Eur. Space Agency, Noordwijk, Netherlands

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

11-14 Oct 1998

Firstpage

903

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998. 1998 IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4778-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1998.725530

Filename

725530