Solar System Exploration

This software has great value for the aeronautical and space activities, by making satellite imagery easily available for mapping applications, and incresing the public awareness. Many applications exist, from climate and weather monitoring to real-time navigation and disaster response.

In the late 1980s, Dr. Benjamin Dolgin of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a concept for a high-damping graphite/viscoelastic material for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Dolgin drummed up this concept with the intention of stabilizing weapons launch platforms in space, where there is...

The SPS UIP is currently being used in direct support of spacecraft tracking activities in the Deep Space Network. This suite of UIs could be adapted to support operations environments requiring upload and management of input complex, interdependent input data, and monitor and control of a...

OCO-2 will be based on the previously launched Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite and will carry a single instrument, consisting of three high-resolution grating spectrometers (instruments that measure properties of light within the electromagnetic spectrum). This instrument will obtain...

The database design is represented in a UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagram, along with a data dictionary spreadsheet. A prototype implementation exists in mySQL, along with mySQL stored procedures for adding entries and determining allowed access.

The "DDOR SASF to APF tool" has direct benefit to the conduct of space activities in that it reduces cost and risk associated with the sequencing of delta-door observations with the MRO spacecraft (and ODY spacecraft for MSPA DDOR).

A consortium of researchers from Jet Propulsion Laboratory and three other organizations used charged coupled devices (CCDs) and other imaging enhancement technology to decipher previously unreadable portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The technique has potentially important implications for...

This tool is used in opperations by the MRO and Phoenix missions. The tool provides both time savings and risk reduction in the periodic updating of the dsn_config modeling adaptation. The dsn config converter tool is used for converting the dsn_config.cvs file into a multi-mission AAF file for use...

This software suite is used in the Network Operations and Control Center (DSCC) at JPL, at all three Deep Space Communication Complexes at Goldstone, Canberra, and Madrid. It is used daily in on-going efforts to track spacecrafts.This software is also used in the research and technology development...

DDP evaluates criticality by generating a tree of failure modes and a tree of requirements and then evaluating the impact of each failure mode on each requirement.