Speaker
Dr
Daniel Novak
(CGI)
Description
With the growing number of debris and satellites which ESA operate, the necessity for operators to mitigate collisions with debris is a reality. Meanwhile atmospheric re-entry of objects is also gaining lots of media interest.
In order to enhance ESA's Space Debris Office's (SDO) operational support to missions and to national alert centers, CGI has been developing web based tools which improve decision making speeds, decision quality and end user experience in general. The tools also allow to scale up operational support to more missions, be it ESA's or external ones.
What are being developed are essentially front-ends for displaying data from the SDO's databases or generated from SDO's computations. The display of data are in tables, graphic plots or 3D visualisations and is split in views which are specifically adapted to the role of the user, e.g. satellite operator, debris analyst or manager. Among the multiple functionalities, an important one is the possibility to launch the SDO's avoidance manoeuver optimiser CORAM and to display the resulting trajectory and close approach geometry.
The applications were developed with powerful web technologies, have a common visually appealing look-and-feel and have been developed with continuous user feedback, such that the ergonomics are adapted to the SDO's work flow as well as to its own varied customers. The latest version of the tools will be demoed during the presentation.
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Primary author
Dr
Daniel Novak
(CGI)
Co-authors
Ankit Choudary
(CGI)
Davide Biamonti
(CGI)
Jeremy Gross
(CGI)
Mr
Quirin Funke
(IMS Space Consultancy GmbH at ESA/ESOC)
Stijn Lemmens
(ESA)
