Command & Control
The real-time functions of mission control — commanding, telemetry, command sequencing, and automation.
- Command SequencingOperations function
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.
- Mission ControlOperations function
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.
- Operations AutomationOperations function
Software that automates routine operations — from pass scheduling and telemetry screening to onboard sequence execution — reducing workload and enabling operations at deep-space distances.
- Telemetry ProcessingOperations function
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.