Abstract
This chapter deals with Mission Planning as one of the key elements of a spaceflight mission. All activities on board need to be brought into a temporal content to ensure optimal mission success and facilitate the synchronized interaction of multiple components, systems, or teams. The first step is to develop a common language, which allows the mathematical modeling of the basic problem itself. The first section of the chapter therefore introduces the basic elements of mission planning and explains the mutual interactions between them. In the second section this concept is applied to unmanned satellite missions, whereas the third section presents the mission planning within the International Space Station project as one example for human spaceflight planning.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the kind support of Hilde Stenuit and Eric Istasse of the ESA Mission Science Office, who contributed to this article with their knowledge about the strategic and tactical ISS planning phases.
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Lenzen, C., Göttfert, T., Mrowka, F., Uhlig, T., Herrmann, D., Campan, J. (2015). Mission Planning. In: Uhlig, T., Sellmaier, F., Schmidhuber, M. (eds) Spacecraft Operations. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1803-0_5
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