Rosetta Ground Segment and Mission Operations |
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Authors: | M Warhaut P Ferri E Montagnon |
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Institution: | (1) European Space Agency/European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany |
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Abstract: | At the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt (Germany) the activities for ground segment development and mission operations
preparation for Rosetta started in 1997. Many of the characteristics of this mission were new to ESOC and have therefore required
an early effort in identifying all the necessary facilities and functions. The ground segment required entirely new elements
to be developed, such as the large deep-space antenna built in New Norcia (Western Australia). The long duration of the journey
to the comet, of about 10 years, required an effort in the operations concept definition to reduce the cost of routine monitoring
and control. The new approaches adopted for the Rosetta mission include full transfer of on-board software maintenance responsibility
to the operations team, and the installation of a fully functioning spacecraft engineering model at ESOC, in support of testing
and troubleshooting activities in flight, but also for training of the operations staff. Special measures have also been taken
to minimise the ground contact with the spacecraft during cruise, to reduce cost, down to a typical frequency of one contact
per week. The problem of maintaining knowledge and expertise in the long flight to comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko is also a major
challenge for the Rosetta operations team, which has been tackled early in the mission preparation phase and evolved with
the first years of flight experience. |
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Keywords: | space missions operation ground segment Rosetta interplanetary exploration |
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