1. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio MARS USOC Operational Scenario Increment 27-28 and 29-30 domenico.sorrentino@telespazio.com@telespazio.com POIWG 30 (26-28 July 2011)

2. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio MARS USOC Center is located in the East zone of Napoli (Italy) Infrastructures MARS is now only the USOC name, the company is Telespazio, a Finmeccanica/Thales Company ITALY 2/25

3. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio MARS is equipped with two advanced infrastructures: Control Room and Laboratory (Clean Room) In 2005, inside the Laboratory, a 100 square meters Clean Room, ISO 7- 10.000 Class was installed; the goal is to test and to integrate activity of prototypes and experimental facilities. Infrastructures 3/25 The Control Room is logically divided into ESA side and ASI side. Actually: ESA side has one row for RT ops, and one row for simulation or test with EM. A third row has been added for SODI. ASI side has one row for ALTEA, one row for ASINET infrastructure control, and one row for MDS.

4. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio Increment 29-30 Increment 29-30, MARS Center is responsible for operation conduction and preparation for: –FSL Class 1 payload - Columbus –ALTEA SHIELD Class 2 payload for EXPRESS Rack - Columbus / US Lab –TRITEL Stand alone payload –SODI Class 2 payload for MSG - US Lab 4/25

5. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio Fluid Science Laboratory FSL

6. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio MARS GEOFLOW II CONSOLE COVERAGE MARS/TPZ: 2/3 shifts for up to 24h/5d support –FSL monitoring and control during GeoFlow-2 runs, that are carried out by E-USOC –FSL transition to Nominal Mode for Geoflow –High Rate Data (Image and MMA) downlink –Geoflow II monitoring support during NO ROT and LOW ROT runs, when E USOC is not on Console MARS support to COL CC –FSL Rack Activation/Deactivation –DMS File Uplink –MMU FSL transfer 6/25

7. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio GEOFLOW 2 - Shared resources needed Geoflow uses shared resources as HRDL Two main data flow are received on ground: –Images (RT and Playback) –MMA (RT and Playback) In realtime mode, the nice to have requirement is 10 Mbps for images and MMA that come on ground together In playback mode, images and MMA data can not be downloaded together –For Images: 10 Mbps –For MMA 4 Mbps This values come from analysis and balancement of Error Rate and the fastest data stream 7/25

8. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio FSL Activities 1/2 FSL Increment 27-28 Crew Activities: 1) GEOFLOW EC installation 2) FCE release Data downlinked: FSL Commissioning and GEOFLOW-1 H/K TM + Images = about 5GBytes GEOFLOW-1 H/K TM + science Images = 95GBytes MVIS INC: 21/22 - MVIS H/K TM + files data downlinked = 1,69GB INC. 25/26 - MVIS H/K TM + files data downlinked = 1,69GB MMA MMA data for PCDF, visiting vehicles docking and berthing = about 5 GB 8/25 FSL Increment 29-30 Crew Activities: 1) Geoflow EC Removal (TBC) It can remain inside FSL to support tests 2) VMU Hybrid test If it is successfully completed can improve FSL overall performance and FASES experiment can be performed without overhead 3) Maintenance activities Depending on VMU Hybrid test results: 1) VMU (Video Management Unit) removal (TBC) 1.Hard Disks and Tape recorder removal 2.UIP Connectors Park 3.VMU Hardware Removal

9. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio FSL Activities 2/2 Data to be downlinked GEOFLOW II (2011) –Scientific images: 140 GB for priorities 1-5, 140 GB for priorities 6-10. –MMA data: 70GB for priorities 1-5, 70GB for Priorities 6-10. –H/K TM = 23GB for priorities 1-5, 23GB for Priorities 6-10. TOTAL = 140+140+70+70+23+23= 486 GB FASES (2012/2013) –Images for optical ITEM’s C/O (22 samples * 1 hours * 8MBps) = 80 GB –Scientific images to be stored on the VMU HDDs: = about 2,2 TB –MMA data to be stored on the VMU HDDs = about 83 GB –H/K TM with data tapes use= 20 weeks * 5 days/week * 10kbps = 84 GB –H/K TM without data tapes use = 27 weeks * 5 days/week * 10kbps = 113 GB TOTAL *= about 2,5 TB * (Scenario without the data on tapes, pure downlink) 9/25

10. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio ALTEA SHIELD Status

11. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio LATEA SURVEY 3rd Location Attached to ER 8 (LAB 1 P4) 11/25 ALTEA SHIELD SURVEY Measurements performed so far ALTEA Shield – 1 Run performed with success in increment 27/28. (1 already performed during winter 2010 in Location#2 – LAB1O2 – 41 days)

12. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio ALTEA DATA FLOW TO SCIENTISTS ALTEA SHIELD GROUND SEGMENT ARCHITECTURE Napoli - ItalyRome - Italy 12/25

13. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio ALTEA Data Monitoring 13/25 ALTEA is monitored at MARS center through: – realtime display, showing H&S and HK telemetry – Ground segment status e-mail – SDU events SMS on mobile

14. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio New ALTEA PAS in development –PD is going to delivery a new Application Software to launch ALTEA. Contrary to the current procedure 2.004, Crew will simply press Connect (RIC to DAU) Select Experiment The Crew time is so reduced to 1 minute instead of 10-15 minutes as per current procedure –New PAS (Payload Application Software) will fix also some issue (PAR ALTEA - SW – 001) for the downlink of files in case of troubleshooting The files will be stored in a folder whose name will have a length less than 46 characters ALTEA-SHIELD H/K and science cyclic TM already downlinked = 35 GB –H/K and science cyclic TM to be downlinked : 35 GB –(Note: these data are routed via ASINET) 14/25

15. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio TRITEL Three-Axis Telescope

16. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio TRITEL Operation preparation Status Increment 29-30 TRITEL will be installed underneath the EPM Rack within Columbus No resources of EPM will be used. The Rack is used just as a place where the TRITEL hardware is comfortable. 16/25

17. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio12-13/01/2011All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio TRITEL science overview The TriTel experiment is designed to provide a high-accuracy measurement of the radiation environment inside the Columbus module. In one selected location, the TriTel instrument will detect radiation that enters from all sides (field of view: 4π) Data will be recorded with time resolution so that the dynamic fluctuations of the incoming radiation can be followed. By using a combination of three different detector types (silicon detectors, TLDs and SSNTDs), which are orthogonally arranged along the X, Y and Z axis of the ISS, each with a slightly different and complementary sensitivity, it will be possible to calculate the equivalent dose for the Astronauts with optimal precision. 17/25

18. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio Payload Overview MEMORY STICK TRITEL Active elements DETECTOR UNIT CENTRAL UNIT PASSIVEDETECTOR PACKAGE TRITEL Passive element: PASSIVE DETECTOR PACKAGE 18/25

19. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio TRITEL Operation preparation Status Planning Request in final OOS INC 29-30: –Crew: After the 29S docking: crew for installation, activation and Photo session After 3-15 days from activation: crew for data copy and data downlink trough OCA for check After 30 S docking Crew install Passive Data Package and start the experiment -6 months continuous unattended measurements, then download with 30 S undock Increment 29-30 19/25

20. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio TRITEL Operation preparation Status Increment 28 and Increment 29-30 After 29S docking Wait for 30S docking After 30S docking 20/25 Download PDP & USB pen Trash other stuff Download all data via OCA 20 Mbyte expected

21. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio Selectable Optical Diagnostics Instrument (SODI) Status

22. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio MSG/SODI Upcoming activities SODI DSC Status: 1.New EP (scripts) have been prepared at MARS reflecting the new requirements indicated in the Issue 4 of the new signed SODI DSC ESR. 2.The following changes have been implemented: new average temperatures, new temperature gradients, new single run durations (changed from 8 to 10 hours for cell array 1 and from 8 to 31.5 hours for cell array 2), new experiment sub-steps sequence (changed from 10 to 12), new image generation requirements (duration and image acquisition frequency). 3.A representative sub-set of scripts has been validated by MARS (level- 2 validation) via remote connection with the EM at Qinetiq. 4.New operation plans have been prepared based on 24/5, 24/6 or 24/7 coverage schemes and will be discussed with NASA. Launch of DSC is foreseen in the Autumn 2011 timeframe (45P, 26 Oct.2011). 22/25

23. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio File Zipping Process As the amount of data generated by SODI DSC does not fit the available 6 DSC Flash Disks, a lossless file zipping technique will be used. Such approach will be based on using a zipping software already available on the MSG Laptop (MLC) and operating a “from the laptop” compression (no SODI CPU involvement, no interference with scripts running on SODI) With such an approach additional coordination is required between the USOC and the MSG Ops 23/25

24. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio DSC In-flight science constraints Every time the instrument is powered on, a thermalising time of 6 hours shall be present before starting the experimental runs. The experiment can be put on hold indefinitely between runs, if needed. In case the experiment is stopped during the execution of a run, the latter shall be repeated after a wait time (minimum 4 hours for cell array 1, minimum 12 hours for cell array 2) to allow the relaxation of concentration gradients inside the cell. 24/25

25. All rights reserved © 2010, Telespazio SODI Data downlink SODI IVIDIL/COLLOID/DSC (2011/2012) –H/K + science cyclic TM (IVIDIL) = about 2 GB –H/K + science cyclic TM (COLLOID) = about 1,2 GB –H/K + science cyclic TM + science images for the DSC mission = 45 GB (about 40Gbytes of images) 25/25