A High Capacity Object Oriented Mission Scheduling System for XTE
Abstract
Mission scheduling is traditionally one of the most difficult problems in operations. We developed an OOD (Object Oriented Design) to solve this problem for XTE (X-Ray Timing Explorer), a mission launching in Winter 1995. The Long Term Scheduler (LTS) system produces schedules for one year at a resolution of 1 week, accounting for over 2500 individual pointings. In parallel to this, the Short-Term Scheduler (STS) produces detailed event lists with minute accuracy for each given week, requiring less than 4 hours to generate a complete weekly timeline. This rapid turn-around time allows for quick creation during TOOs as well as providing support for alternate targets. Because of the design, the time-line generation also produces the commands to implement the schedule.
- Publication:
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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V
- Pub Date:
- 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996ASPC..101..463J