SCIENCE OPERATIONS OF ESA PLANETARY MISSIONS

摘要

In the year 2003 the European Space Agency (ESA) will launch three spacecraft to targets in our solar system: Rosetta to a comet, Smart-1 to the Moon, Mars Express to Mars. BepiCOLOMBO, to go to Mercury, is in the planning stage. All of these missions have similar requirements to science operations. This paper discusses the peculiarities of these missions and a generic approach to the way the science operations is done and which tools are used at ESA to plan the operations.