A multi-mission operations strategy for sequencing and commanding

The Telecommunications and Mission Operations Directorate (TMOD) of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for development, maintenance and operation of flight operations systems for several classes of science missions planned for the next several years. The Mission Services and Applications (MS&A) Office is responsible for a large group of operations tasks, most of which are oriented toward the uplink leg of flight operations. These include sequence design and command generation, flight engineering tasks such as spacecraft activity planning and performance analysis, mission planning, telecommunications link analysis and DSN resource scheduling and planning. In addition, MS&A is responsible for the software tools necessary for performing these functions.