Altair Aerospace has been contracted by NASA to fully automate the Landsat 7 Mission Operations Center building upon its Altairis Mission Control System software which has been in use
1996.
Over the period of the fourteen-month contract a phased approach of incremental improvements to the existing system will be implemented to bring the MOC from manual operations to complete ("lights out") automation for routine operations.
ATSC's Landsat 7 project manager, Tegan Collier, said: "It is my intention to turn the Landsat Mission Operations Center into a showplace for automation technology using Altairis software."
Altair specializes in commercial-off-the-shelf software for highly automated satellite ground stations and launch vehicle control systems. The Altairis Mission Control System uses advanced Finite State Modeling technology and a modular, distributed, CORBA-compliant architecture.
In addition to Landsat 7, Altairis has been selected for MIDEX and other NASA programs as well as numerous other government and commercial customers.
Altairis provides a proven level of reliable automation not achieved by any other commercial TT&C software and has demonstrated scalability for automated control of large satellite constellations.
Its fully object oriented design allows full plug-and-play freedom to interface with other software packages and guarantees future upgrade paths for both software and hardware.
