Introduction to ESOC

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Introductionto ESOC
European Space Operations Centre
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• Table of Contents
• Organisation of ESA
• ESOCs role and responsibilities
• Mission Operation Facilities
• Engineering Tools

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• The Purpose of ESA
• ESA is an intergovernmental organisation with a
  mission to provide and promote, for exclusively
  peaceful purposes
• Space science, research and technology
• Space applications
• ESA achieves this through
• space activities and programmes
• long-term space policy
• a specific industrial policy
• coordinating European national space programmes

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• ESA has 17 Member States
• Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
  Germany, Greece,Ireland, Italy,
  Luxembourg,Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal,
  Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom
• Canada takes part in some projects under a
  cooperation agreement

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• The ESA Programmes
• All Member States participate in activities and a
  common set of programmes related to space science
  (mandatory programmes)
• In addition, members choose their level of
  participation in the following optional
  programmes
• Manned spaceflight
• Microgravity research
• Earth observation
• Telecommunications
• Navigation
• Launcher Development

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ESA Governing Bodies
PROGRAMME BOARDS COMMUNICATIONS EARTH
OBSERVATION LAUNCHERS MANNED SPACEFLIGHT
MICROGRAVITY NAVIGATION
COUNCIL
SCIENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (SPC)
ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCE COMMITTEE (AFC)
INDUSTRIAL POLICY COMMITTEE (IPC)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE (IRC)
DIRECTOR GENERAL
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ESA Directorates
DIRECTOR GENERAL J-J. Dordain
Programme Directorates
SCIENCE D. SOUTHWOOD
EARTH OBSERVATION PROGRAMMES V. LIEBIG
EU INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMMES G. VIRIGLIO
LAUNCHERS A. FABRIZI
HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT MICROGRAVITY EXPLORATION
D.SACOTTE
Support Directorates
OPERATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE G. WINTERS
TECHNICAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT M. COURTOIS
EXTERNAL RELATIONS R. OOSTERLINCK
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT H. KAPPLER
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Headquarters, Paris (France) Houses the Director
Generals office, general administration and the
main programme directorates 417 Staff (incl.
Liaison offices in Brussels, Kourou, Moscow,
Toulouse, Washington and Houston)
ESTEC - Noordwijk (the Netherlands) European
Space Research Technology Centre 1106 Staff
EAC - Cologne (Germany) European Astronauts
Cenre 21 Staff
ESOC - Darmstadt (Germany) European Space
Operations Centre 247 Staff
ESRIN - Frascati (Italy) European Space Research
Institute 151 Staff
Personnel ESA (as of 31.01.2003) 1942 Staff
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Director General
Programme Directors
Technical Matrix Interaction
Project Management Teams
Project Management Teams
Science
Applications
Science
Applications
MS and Micro- gravity
EU and Industrial
Earth Observation
ESOC
Mission Operations OPS-O
Director of Operations and Infrastructure
Electrical Engineering
Ground Systems Engineering OPS-G
Product Assurance and Safety
Information Systems OPS-I
Site Management OPS-S
Mission Operations
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DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
ESOC
P. G. Winters (D/OPS)
ESOC Support Office H. Laue OPS-PM
Network of Technical Centres Support Office H.
Nye OPS-NC
ESOC Quality Office A. Mantineo OPS-CQ
MISSION OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT W. Frank OPS-O
INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEPARTMENT U. Mortensen OPS-I
SITE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT B. Mercier OPS-S
GROUND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT J-F.
Kaufeler OPS-G
Ground Segment Management
Ground Station Systems Division B. Jensen OPS-GS
Flight Operations Division A. Smith OPS-OF
Navigation Support Office J. Dow OPS-GN
Astronomical Observatory Survey Missions
Division J. Dodsworth OPS-OA
Ground Facilities Operations Division N.
Bobrinsky OPS-ON
Mission Data Systems Division M. Jones OPS-GD
Earth Observation Missions Division P. Emanuelli
OPS-OE
Mission Analysis Section W. Flury OPS-GA
Flight Dynamics Division R. Muench OPS-GF
Villafranca Ground Station V. Claros OPS-OV
Planetary Exploration Missions Division M.
Warhaut OPS-OP
Redu Ground Station D. Galardini OPS-OR
Data Systems Infrastructure Division N. Peccia
OPS-GI
Studies Special Projects Division D. Andrews
OPS-OS
Frequency Coordination Office E. Vassallo OPS-OW

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ESOCs Role and Responsibilities
ESOC Ground Segment
15 of mission budget ½ development, ½ operation
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• Prime responsibility Support ESA missions
  within areas of responsibility
• Carry-out RD to maintain flight operations
  expertise
• Provide services to External Customers utilising
  spare capacity
• Roughly 70-80, 10-15, 10-15 work volume

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• ESOC Mission Operations Centre responsible for
  operation of ESA missions
• Mission Operations Department - Preparation and
  execution of operations
• Engineering Department - Provision of tools
• All facilities certified according to latest ISO
  Standard (ISO 90012000)
• Procurement of Services and systems with
  European Industry
• - Maintain core competencies within ESA
• - Strengthen competition
• - Distribute risks using frame Contracts

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• Ca. 240 ESA staff and 400 Industrial staff
  on-site at Darmstadt
• Ground facilities investment value ca. 1 Beuro
• Two Control Centres and 7 ground stations
• Annual turnover ca. 100 Meuro
• 70-80 of budget spent in European Industry
• 60 LEOPs, including Services for other
  Operators
• 44 missions operated over 35 years
• 4-satellite Cluster mission, tandem ERS/Envisat
  operations
• In-orbit rescue
• Deep Space Navigation and satellite hibernation
  and reactivation

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ESAs Mission Model (1)
Operational missions

operated by NASA

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ESAs Mission Model (2)
Missions in preparation MSG-2, 2005
METOP-1, GOCE, SMART-2 2006 Herschel-Planck,
ADM-Aeolus 2007 Longer Term Earth Explorer-34,
Earth Watch MSG-3, METOP-23 (LEOP
Services) Bepi-Colombo, Eddington, SOLO,
LISA, GAIA, SMART-3


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Operations Facilities

• Control rooms at Darmstadt, JPL (Ulysses)
• Communication Networks
• ESA Stations
• Redu (Belgium)
• Kourou (French Guiana)
• Villafranca (Spain)
• Cebreros (Spain)
• Kiruna (Sweden)
• Perth (W. Australia)
• New Norcia (W. Australia)
• Maspalomas (Spain)
• Malindi (Kenya)
• Interoperability NASA, CNES, NASDA, Norway
  (Svalbard), SSC/USN, Univ. of Chile
• Centralised control of ESA stations/communication
  s remotely from ESOC
• Interface compatibility for Ariane/Kourou and
  Soyuz-Fregat/Baikonour

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Core ESA Network Augmented ESA
Network Cooperative ESA Network
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ESA Cooperative Network (subset)
ESOC 15/07/2002
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• 15m S-band Network
• Kourou, Kiruna, Redu, Vilspa, Perth, Maspalomas,
  Malindi (10m)
• X ?? X? X?
  X?
• X-band ? to be implemented in Perth(2005) and
  Vilspa (2005)
• 35m antennas (Deep Space Terminal)
• New Norcia (Perth) Operational (Rosetta/Mars
  Express)
• S/X ??, Ka ? capability
• Cebreros (Madrid) Planned (2005 - Venus
  Express)
• X ?? , Ka ?
• X.25 protocol replaced by TCP/IP Inside
  stations and control centres (LAN)
• between stations and control centre (WAN)
• Timescale mid 2004

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Engineering Tools - Operations Preparation

• Mission Operations Information System (MOIS)
• Tool for operations procedures development and
  maintenace
• Editing, configuration control, traceability,
  document production
• I/F to satellite database (SCOS)
• Based on WINFOPS (Windows Flight Operations
  Procedures System) COTS (Microsoft Office)
  procedure generation tool
• Easy to use, familiarity, configurable (1-2 mm
  per mission)
• All current ESA (except Integral) and future
  missions based on MOIS
• Automation of sytem using PLUTO scripts
• Typical sizing ENVISAT 1700 procedures
• ROSETTA 700 procedures

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Engineering Tools - SCOS-2000

• SCOS-2000 Spacecraft Control Operations System
  supports all functions needed to acquire,
  process, display and archive TM and to send and
  archive TCs
• Runs on UNIX Platforms (SUN/Solaris or
  PC/LINUX)
• Modern layered architecture
• Supports packet TM and TC CCSDS standards and
  ESA PUS standard
• Highly scalable (from single WS or PC
  SCOS-2000 in a box, to complex
  configuration with over tens of WS)
• Multi-mission support (constellations)
  architecture design
• - Studies eg. Related to Galileosat)
• Satellite check-out eg. Herschel-Planck
• Satellite level
• Instrument (P.I.) level

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Simulator Infrastructure

• Software Infrastructure for Modelling SATellites
  (SIMSAT)
• Dec/alpha VMS version currently used phased
  out
• PC/Windows-NT version (current baseline)
• Move towards LINUX/PC version (2005-2006)
• Generic models
• Customisable and re-usable
• Currently available models include position
  and environment, 1750 processor emulation, ERC32
  emulation (all missions from Cryosat), power
  distribution, OBDH protocol, packet TM encoding
  and TC decoding, ground station equipment
• Will be upgraded to support new simulator model
  portability standards in the near future
• Future 64-bit Intel processor emulation

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Simulations

• TM/TC Mission Control System I/F

• Stations Comms MCS (TM/TC)

MCS
TTSIM
ESA Ground Station
PSS
MCS
Telemetry/Telecommand Simulator Station modelling
Portable Software Simulator Station modelling
NB. Rf compatibility uses satellite model
Satellite/MCS compatibility
Validation/Training
E G S E
E G S E
Satellite Simulator
MCS
Satellite
NDIU
MCS
Dynamic Simulation
Network Data Interface Unit