Travelling in the Solar System – The Challenges of Interplanetary Mission Operations 25/04/2024
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Speaker: Dott. Paolo Ferri – Former Head of ESA Mission Operations
Date: Thursday 25th April 2024 at 19.00 BST
Venue: BIS Headquarters, 27/29 South Lambeth Road, Vauxhall, London, SW8 1SZ, and Online on Zoom
Travelling in the Solar System – The Challenges of Interplanetary Mission Operations
Operating a robotic spacecraft that travels in deep space across the Solar System is very different from operating a spacecraft in Earth orbit: it requires special infrastructures, techniques and expertise. Interplanetary missions have to deal with extremely large distances to Earth and variable distances to the Sun, which significantly impacts the space-ground communications and the thermal and power constraints. The long signal propagation delays impose a high level of on-board autonomy, which has to be managed carefully through the highly variable conditions the spacecraft encounters during its journey. The long duration of the missions require high flexibility in the on-board design and in the ground tools, to be able to adapt to the different missions phases, but also to irreversible failures and degradations in the on-board hardware.
This talk will describe the challenges of interplanetary flight from the point of view of the mission operations, illustrated through real-life experiences and examples taken from many ESA missions in the Solar System of the last two decades.
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The event will be on Thursday 25th April 2024 at 7pm. Our Speaker will be delivering this talk with an in-person audience at our HQ building in London, this will also be live-streamed online on Zoom for additional virtual online attendance.
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