Enhancing International Space Station (ISS) Mission Control Center (MCC) Operations Using Tcl/Tk

Enhancing International Space Station (ISS) Mission Control Center (MCC) Operations Using Tcl/Tk

This paper will discuss the use of Tcl/Tk to enhance the abilities of flight controllers to control the International Space Station (ISS) from the Mission Control Center (MCC) at the Johnson Space Center. We will discuss why existing tools where not able to meet these needs as easily as Tcl/Tk. In a...

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Hauptverfasser: OHagan, Brian, Long, Stephen K., Sr
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This paper will discuss the use of Tcl/Tk to enhance the abilities of flight controllers to control the International Space Station (ISS) from the Mission Control Center (MCC) at the Johnson Space Center. We will discuss why existing tools where not able to meet these needs as easily as Tcl/Tk. In addition, we will also discuss how we interfaced with the existing MCC infrastructure to receive ISS telemetry, find servers, register services, and send commands to ISS.