Command & Control

Building and validating the time-ordered lists of commands a spacecraft executes, often days or weeks in advance, and uplinking them through the ground network.

The team and facility that command and monitor a spacecraft in real time — the heart of mission operations, staffed by controllers each responsible for a subsystem.

Software that automates routine operations — from pass scheduling and telemetry screening to onboard sequence execution — reducing workload and enabling operations at deep-space distances.

Receiving, decoding, and displaying the stream of engineering and science data a spacecraft downlinks, so controllers can assess its health and scientists can use its measurements.