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Mission Planning
Mission Planning accomplishes all tasks associated with scheduling and generation of contral data for both the ground system and satellite operation. It Sysntehsizes the users' scheduled data needs and accepts request for special satellite status information to create the data files for contral of the DMSP satellite system. Mission Planning is designed as a schedule-driven system with minimum operator intervention. There will be a schedule running for each operational spacecraft. Divided into different phases of operation, Rise, Pass, and Fade, the schedule can simultaneously support multiple DMSP satellites. The Mission Planning function receives requests from users for stored and real-time mission data. In addition, mission requirements and constraints on the current capabilities of the satellite are received. These are processed to automatically produce the data files used to control the DMSP satellites. |