Experiment scheduling for the Industrial Space Facility
Abstract
The ability to provide flexible manifesting and scheduling is critical to the operation of the Industrial Space Facility (ISF). The ISF is a man-tended free-flying space platform which will be launched in the early 1990s, and will serve as a bridge to the Space Station era. Efficient and cost effective operation of the ISF can be facilitated through the use of multivariable optimization techniques. A software tool, called the Prototype ISF Experiment Scheduler, was developed to implement a learning heuristic algorithm and to show that efficient use can be made of available ISF resources, given the requirements of a realistic set of payloads.
- Publication:
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7th AIAA Computers in Aerospace Conference
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989coae.conf.1088K
- Keywords:
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- Commercial Spacecraft;
- Scheduling;
- Space Industrialization;
- Space Platforms;
- Spaceborne Experiments;
- Heuristic Methods;
- Optimization;
- Payload Integration;
- Real Time Operation;
- Resource Allocation;
- Software Tools;
- Space Commercialization;
- Engineering (General)