Onboard Autonomous Planning System
Ella Herz, Doug George, Timothy Esposito · SpaceOps 2014 Conference · 2014
Under a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract with the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate, the team of Orbit Logic, PnP Innovations, and Emergent Space are developing an Autonomous Planning System (APS) that can run onboard a satellite in flight software and respond to onboard and external events to meet the planning/scheduling requirements of a variety of missions. The modular architecture allows planning systems to be assembled from individual planning components and quickly configured (and reconfigured as necessary) to meet initial and dynamic mission goals.