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For long-duration missions such as Mars Express and Rosetta, operating at considerable distances from Earth and with complex and highly variable mission profiles, issues of automation, the retention of knowledge and experience, and the potential human risk factor are especially relevant. Maximising the benefits of a “human in-the-loop” are increasingly seen as fundamental to on-going mission success...
The paper focuses on the end-to-end science operations for the first and only European Mars mission to-date, describing the approaches to science and mission planning and the challenges imposed by the operations constraints. It includes the activities of the instrument and science planning teams to plan and process the collected data. The Mars Express spacecraft has been in orbit around Mars since...
This paper describes the algorithms used in a planning and scheduling software tool developed for the European Space Agency in the framework of the Mars Express mission. The planning and scheduling algorithm computes a feasible schedule for the transmission of telecommands (TCs) from the ground segment to the space segment, complying with a number of technical constraints. Owing to the distance between...
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