Communication and Infrastructure
This chapter describes the design aspects of a typical Mission Control Center (MCC) and the Ground Station Network. The Mission Control Center—as the name implies—is the central ground facility of a space mission. It is the central point where all data an
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Spacecraft Operations
Spacecraft Operations
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Thomas Uhlig • Florian Sellmaier • Michael Schmidhuber Editors
Spacecraft Operations
Editors Thomas Uhlig Florian Sellmaier Michael Schmidhuber German Space Operations Center (GSOC) German Aerospace Center DLR Wessling, Germany
ISBN 978-3-7091-1802-3 ISBN 978-3-7091-1803-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-1803-0 Springer Wien Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2014945749 © Springer-Verlag Wien 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Timing is everything—this is especially true for spaceflight operations. 2014 is a special year for the European space community, the year that started with the wakeup of ROSETTA, ESA’s comet chaser, with Philae, the German comet lander, which is on its extraterrestrial voyage since 2004. It has been awoken from its hibernation and is providing us with data during its carefully planned first approach on a comet—67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. In November 2014, the mission culminates in the descent of the lander PHILAE to the surface of the comet’s frozen nucleus—the resulting measurements may help us answer some of the fundamental questions about the evolution of life on earth. Comets are considered as vet
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