Analysis of automated techniques for routine monitoring and contingency detection of in-flight LEO operations at EUMETSAT
Ed Trollope, Richard Dyer, Tiago Francisco, James Miller, Mauro Pagan Griso, Alessandro Argemandy · 2018 SpaceOps Conference · 2018
The flight control teams of two Low Earth Orbit missions at EUMETSAT present an overview of the automated tools and methodologies being used to analyse and report on spacecraft health; including trend analysis, data mining and outlier detection.A qualitative analysis of the techniques is provided based on in-flight experience, and proposals for future development of such toolsets are presented.This paper focuses on the experiences of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 and EPS MetOp flight control teams in using the EUMETSAT CHART framework, which allows engineers to define automated reports and perform ad-hoc analysis on large datasets with multiple input sources.Arguments are also presented regarding whether or not it may be appropriate for future missions to consider applying some of these techniques directly onboard as an extension of the currently in-place FDIR mechanisms.