Spike for GSOC/DLR
The German
Space Operations Center (GSOC) of the
German Aerospace Research
Establishment (DLR) is using Spike to support two missions:
MOMS-2P and MIR97.
MOMS-2P (Modular Optoelectronic
Multispectral Scanner) is a mission to observe targets on the
Earth with a special camera mounted on the Russian space station MIR.
Spike is used for the generation of the mid-term
timeline, which covers a period of two weeks and for the generation
of short-term timeline, which covers a period of one day.
Since clouds obscure MOMS-2P observations, the DLR has developed a novel
extension to Spike: They
use weather statistics to take into account the probability of cloud cover
in constructing the suitability function.
MIR97 is a manned
mission which lasts about a month. The activity of astronauts is
scheduled using Spike.
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