Mission Control Center
Purpose
Handling and logging of all communication with the satellite through a distributed server client sheme. The main features of the Mission Control Center are a user interface for sending commands and receiving data, a common interface for the two groundstations in aalborg and svalsat, handle data storage. All communication both up and downlink is stored in a database. The MCC has been developed for SSETI Express. Below is shown an overview of the MCC system.
Operator Interface:
The operator inter face is a single-user GUI implemented in java.
Access Control - Handles user login/logout. Only one user is allowed to login simultaneously.
Direct Control - Choose commands from a drop-drop menu, these are sent directly.
Pre Flight Plan - Sceduling of commands issued at the beginning of every transaction.
Fligth Plan - Sceduling of commands issued once in every transaction.
Post Flight Plan - Sceduling of commands issued repeatedly after "Flight Plan" is done.
TC Definition - Used to save legal commands for each subsystem (format, description and mnemonic).
TM Definition - Definition of telemetry data format.
TM/TC History - Displays all communication sequentially: alarms, error-messages, commands etc.
Settings - Change the settings for the MCC.
Sat Info - Displays latest nominal beacon data.
Status
November 20, 2005: The final implementations were done to the SSETI MCC. The MCC seems to function as a stable system.
To Do
1. Find time to port the MCC to the AAUSAT-II space link protocol.
2. Port the software.
Documents
MCC - Presentation: MCC_presentation.pps
MCC - Paper: MCC_paper.pdf
For work sheets and more information contact the system engineer for this subsystem.
Files
Contact the system engineer to retrieve source code or database code.
Members
Please contact us using our group-mail (mailto:04gr733@control.aau.dk).
- Martin Green (System Engineer) (mailto:mgre02@space.aau.dk)
- Martin Kragelund (mailto:mnkr02@space.aau.dk)
- Rasmus Stougaard (Inactive) (mailto:rsni02@space.aau.dk)
- Kristian Edlund (Inactive) (mailto:ksed02@space.aau.dk)
- Axel Michelsen (Inactive) (mailto:agmi02@space.aau.dk)
Aditional Infomation
We also do the ADS for AAUSAT-II. We are located in Frederik Bajers Vej 7 Room C4-103.
Pictures and Goodies
In February 2005 Martin Green went to Svalbard (Norway) to set up the ground station at K-Sat. He brougth home with him these astonishing video-clips ;-)
Panoramic view of the K-Sat plateau: Svalbard-ksat-panoramic.avi
Inside "The Shed": Svalbard-ground-station.avi
Weather conditions at 4pm: Svalbard-its-cold-outside.avi
Rough weather when leaving the ground station: Svalbard-rough-weather.avi
The road to the K-Sat plateau: Svalbard-road2ksat.avi
... and also some great pictures from above the polar circle.
Some selective representations:
