High Performance, Web-Based, Real-Time Telemetry Visualization for Deep Space Mission Support and Operations

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mission Control Systems Section and Mobility and Robotic Systems Section have partnered to developed a high-performance telemetry visualization system, based on our mature, web-based, 3D visualization software technology, that provides mission trajectory designers, operations personnel and reconstruction analysts with a highly accurate, re-usable, multi-mission solution to interactively visualize results from Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) simulations, real-time mission test beds, live telemetry streams during critical mission events, such as landing, as well as post-event reconstruction analysis. This work builds on previous mission visualization systems that we have deployed for a variety of flight missions and JPL organizations including NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA’S Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), JPL’s MoonRise Lunar sample return proposal. JPL’s mission design teams, JPL’s Office of Naval Research tasks, and JPL’s Education and Public Outreach Office.