1. POIWG #37 in Huntsville January 28th, 2015
JAXA STATUS UPDATE
POIWG #37 in Huntsville January 28th, 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
Keiichiro “JJ” Sakagami JAXA Flight Director (J-Flight)
Notice : This technical data is furnished on the condition that it will be used by and disclosed to the receiving Cooperating agency and its contractors and sub contractors only for the purposes of fulfilling the cooperating agency’s responsibilities under the Space Station Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). It shall not be used for any other purpose, nor disclosed or retransferred to any other entity or government without prior written permission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

2. JFCT Streamlining Updates Current Hot Topics
Contents
Introduction
JFCT Streamlining Updates
Current Hot Topics
JEMRMS/JEM AL Ops Overview
Increment 41 Generic Lessons Learned

3. KIBO (Japanese Experiment Module; JEM)
JLP
JPM
JEMRMS
HTV
JEF EP

4. Topology in KIBO SEDA-AP and MAXI, launched on 2J/A.
SMILES and HREP, launched on HTV-1.
MCE was launched on HTV-3.
CATS was launched on SpX-5.
Saibo and Ryutai Racks, launched on Flight 1J/A.
MELFI-1, ER4 and ER5, transferred into the JPM during Inc 17.
MELFI-2, transferred into the JPM during Inc 26.
Kobairo Rack and MSPR, launched on HTV-2.
MCE
SEDA-AP
SMILES
MAXI

5. JAXA Astronauts in ISS Takao Doi (1J/A)
Koichi Wakata (Exp 18-20, 38/39)
Soichi Noguchi (Exp 22/23)
Satoshi Furukawa (Exp 28/29)
Naoko Yamazaki (19A)
Akihiko Hoshide (1J, Exp 32/33)

6. New JAXA Astronauts Kimiya YUI Takuya ONISHI Norishige KANAI
Selected be an astronaut candidate by JAXA in February 2009
ISS Expedition 44/45 Crew
Takuya ONISHI
Selected be an astronaut candidate by JAXA in February 2009
ISS Expedition 48/49 Crew
Norishige KANAI
Selected be an astronaut candidate by JAXA in September 2009

7. JAXA Flight Control Team (JFCT)
JFCT Structure
To support ISS/Kibo operations, JAXA Flight Control Team (JFCT) has been organized at SSIPC in Tsukuba, Japan.
JFCT consists of some special flight controllers who are dedicated to each Kibo subsystems, such as C&DH, ECLSS, TCS and so on. JAXA Flight Director (J-FLIGHT) is a leader of JFCT and single point of contact to ISS Flight Director in Houston.

8. MCR and UOA JFCT in Mission Control Room (MCR)
Payload FCT in User Operations Area (UOA)

9. Lessons Learned from 6-year Experience
Basic Concept on JFCT Streamlining
To sustain long-term steady phase ISS/Kibo operations and ensure mission success, JAXA has started JFCT streamlining with the following basic concept based on 6-year ISS/Kibo Operations Experience.
Promotion of Efficient Operations Process
Standardization and simplifying ops products preparation process (ODF, PL Regulations, Timeline input, etc.)
Operation automation by ground system update (Cmd Script, Ku-Bilateral, etc.)
Optimization of 24-hour Shift Position
Reduce intermediate/duplicated coordination process and position
Enhance each position’s function and capability
Relieve night shift work load (Shift 2) considering real-time ops work load
Off-line Team Capability Enhancement
As ISS utilization increasing, off-line coordination with users and ops products timely preparation is getting more essential.
Off-console members will be re-organized to off-line team members.

10. JFCT Roles & Responsibility
24x7

11. JFCT Ops Structure (6 -24hr positions) JFCT KIBO PL FCT POIC SSIPC/MCR
SSIPC/UOA
POD
J-FLIGHT
JFCT
KIBO PL FCT
JEM Payload Officer
(JEM PAYLOADS)
Payload Ground System Officer
(PLGS)*3
POIC Cadre
(PRO/DMC/OC/TCO/Marshall OPS /etc)
JFCT
(FLAT, CANSEI, J-PLAN, J-COM*1, Tsukuba-GC, ARIES*2, KIBOTT*2)
Payload Stowage
Officer
(HAWK-I)*3
SSIPC/ESR
JAXA System/Payload Safety *3
Rack Officer*2
(BIO, FISICS, GOLEM, MEISTER, etc)
<Pressurized>
Exposed Facility Payload Officer (ExPO)
<Exposed>
3PO and JAXA Payload Ops Conductor (JPOC) *3
JEM Pressurized Payload Operations
JEM Exposed Payload Operations
J-Flight, CANSEI, FLAT, Tsukuba-GC, J-Plan and JEM Payloads are on console (24 x 7).
*1: J-COM is on console when JAXA crew activity is planned, usually in Shift 1.
*2: Only when specific ops (such as experiment, IVA, robotics ops) are planned.
*3: Off-line Team.
User Integrator
Rack Operator
(BIO, FISICS, GOLEM, MEISTER, etc)
SEDA/MAXI/
SMILES/MCE/
REX-J
Operator
Technical Support*
IPU-G Operator
Technical Support*

12. JFCT Ops Structure
(4 -24hr positions, JEM Payloads and J-Plan off-console)
POIC
SSIPC/MCR
SSIPC/UOA
J-FLIGHT
JFCT
POD
KIBO PL FCT
Payload Ground System Officer
(PLGS)*3
POIC Cadre
(PRO/DMC/OC/TCO/Marshall OPS /etc)
JFCT
(FLAT, CANSEI, J-Plan*4, J-COM*1, Tsukuba-GC, ARIES*2, KIBOTT*2)
Payload Stowage
Officer
(HAWK-I)*3
SSIPC/ESR
JAXA System/Payload Safety *3
Rack Officer*2
(BIO, FISICS, GOLEM, MEISTER, etc)
<Pressurized>
Exposed Facility Payload Officer (ExPO)
<Exposed>
Off line Team
JEM PAYLOADS *3
*4: Only Shift 3 J-Plan is on console in the backroom.
J-Plan *4
JEM Pressurized Payload Operations
JEM Exposed Payload Operations
3PO and JAXA Payload Ops Conductor (JPOC) *3
User Integrator
Rack Operator
(BIO, FISICS, GOLEM, MEISTER, etc)
SEDA/MAXI/
SMILES/MCE/
REX-J
Operator
Technical Support*
IPU-G Operator
Technical Support*
Position Lead
(BIO, FISICS, GOLEM, MEISTER, ExPO, etc) *3

13. Kazuya Imaki (Double as KIBOTT)
As of Jan.,2015
JEM/HTV Ops Manager
J-FLIGHT 44
Lead 43
Lead 46
Lead 45
Lead
In Training
Daichi
Sakoh
(Candidate)
Dai Asoh
Takayoshi
Nishikawa
Kyotaro
Ida
Miki Hirai
child-care leave
Junichi
Yamaguchi
Akio
Koike
Naoya Shoji
Akira
Tsuchida
Shitoshi
Hasegawa
Keiichiro Sakagami
Makoto
Koshi
Yurika
Nakano
Just
Certified
TSG
Mayumi
Matsuura
Takashi
Uchiyama
Yosuke
Kaneko
Masayuki
Goto
Sogo Nakanooya
<HTV>
<HTV>
<JET>
<JET>
<PL Dev>
Amie Allison
Kyle Warner
Keith Tran
Rebecca Heller
Tsukuba GC J -
PLAN
ARIES
FLAT
CANSEI
KIBOTT
J-COM
JAXA EVA
43/44
Lead
Noriaki
Tamura
Yohichiro Uramoto 45
Lead
43/44
Lead 43
Lead 45
Lead
Tatsuro Suda 45
Lead
Junichi Hase 44
Lead
Kazutaka
Watanabe
45/46
Lead
Eisuke Seki
Masahito
Shirai
Ichiro
Narita
Yousuke
Miura
Junko
Kubota
Yoshitaka
Aizawa
Hiroki
Shimizu
Takeshi
Tsuchiya
Kazunori
Adachi
Fujihisa
Emori
43/44
Lead
Tamiyasu
Shimamiya
Satoru
Nishizawa
Toshinori Bunya
Urara
Ikeno
Katsumi
43/44
Lead
45/46
Lead
Ayako Kato
Saitou
Manami
Arita 43
Lead
Yoshiyuki
Sone
Takaaki
Mashiko
Keiichi
Tsuchiya 46
Lead
Kazuya
Imaki
Takushi
Toyofuku
Hiromichi
Tanaka
45/46
Lead
Shuichi
Ichimura
Kanako
Daigo
Norio Fukui
Ryoya
Ozaki
Yasuhiro
Nagase
Hirokazu
Sugihara
Yuuya Masuda
Susumu Fujita
Sakurako Takahashi
43/44
Lead
Kazuya Imaki (Double as KIBOTT)
Takeshi
Iijima
Nobuyuki
Daichi
Nakamura
Hirotsuna
kobayash
Kazuya Nakata
Mamoru
Mera 46
Lead
Ishiguro 46
Lead 44
Lead
Hiroko
Sasaki
45/46
Lead
Yoshinobu
Sato
Satoshi
Harada
Shinobu
Amikura
(Candidate)
Hiroharu
Shibayama
(Candidate)
Takaaki
Amanai
Shinya Kosaka
(Candidate)
Noriyuki
Okuda
(Candidate)
Yuichi
Taguchi
Junko
Kubota
Kazutaka Watanabe
(Double as
Kibott)
Yuko
Harada
(Candidate)
(Double
As Inst)
Ryota Saito
Shinya Hirata
Manami
Arita
Yoshiyuki
Sone
(Double as　ARIES)
(Double as JAXA EVA)
Yuto
Suzuki
(Candidate)
Yoshitsugu
Suzuki
(Candidate)
Takashi Nasu
(Candidate)

14. KIBO PL FCT Members Increment Lead TBD
<offline team>
JEM/HTV Mission Operations Manager
BIO (Biology Ops Lead)
Inc. Lead JEM PAYLOADS
(JEM Payload Officer)
JAXA IPM/IPE
(JAXA Inc PL Manager
/Engineer)
TBD
Shohei Matsumoto
Yukako Ishitsuka
Eriko
Moriyama
Daisuke
Masuda
Noriko Suzuki
Ryoko Tateyama
Kei
Shibata
Kyoichi Arakane
Takefumi Sakaguchi
Dai Asoh
JPOC (JAXA Payload Ops Conductor)
Tsukasa Uekawa
FISICS
(Fluid Science and Crystallization Science Ops Lead)
MEISTER
(MSPR Engineering and Integration STaff
for Enterprising Research)
JAXA PL Inc Scientist
Makoto Furukawa
Go Hyakutake
Masato Katsuta
Kenji
Noguchi
Yuuta Iwahana
Naoki Ishikawa
Mariko Shimizu
Hiroya Koike
Yuusuke Warashina
Naoya Nakate
Motoharu Masuda
Yasushi Kubota
Yoshiro Nishida
Eriko
Moriyama
Takashi
Kihara
Takefumi
Sakaguchi
Kenji Noguchi
Shusuke Ochiai
HAWK-I
(Payload Stowage Officer)
Small Payload Officer (GNOME)
GOLEM
(GHF Ops Lead and
Engineer of Material)
Yusuke Ohkawa
Jun-ichi Yoshikawa
Hiroharu Shibayama
Yasushi Kubota
Yuusuke Warashina
Yuko Harada
Takashi
Kihara
Yoshiro Nishida
Akane Yamaguchi
Kuniko “Nicky” Okada
Yuji Abiru
Takefumi Sakaguchi
Takahiro Sato
Masaki Fukaishi
Naoko Murakami
BIO/FISICS/GOLEM/MSPR OP (Operator)
Payload Ground System
Officer (PLGS)
Yuji Abiru *
* candidate
Yusuke Ohkawa
Yuuta Iwahana
Yoshiro Nishida
Mariko Ninomiya
Hideki Nagata
Mariko Irie
Yoshiro Nishida
Motoki Tada
Yasuyuki
Watabe
Kei Shibata
Koichi Ishizaki
Takahisa Tokunaga
Hiroshi Koibuchi
Junya　Igaki
Yukako Ishitsuka
ExPO (Exposed Payload Officer )
SEDA-AP
SMILES
MCE
Eriko
Moriyama
Naoki Ishikawa
IPU-G
Kenichi Sekikawa
Mitsuhiro Kinno
Takashi Shimizu
Junko Ohnishi
Kazuya Iwamoto
Kazuki Yanagisawa
Yusuke Suzuki
Tsukasa Fujita
Yuki Matsui
Ryoji
Okazaki
Kyoichi Arakane
Takahiro Sato
Norihiro Sakurai
Tetsuro Mizuno　　　　　　　　
Yasuyuki
Watabe
Hiroya Koike
Ryoko Tateyama
Ryuji Hagi
Shuichi Okawa
Hiroyuki Fujita
Yuki Wakayama
Atsushi Fujii
Ryoji Okazaki
Hiromasa Saito
Kenji Sawahata
Toru Mori
Naoki Ishikawa

15. Cross Training for CANSEI & FLAT (under discussion)
Future Plan
Planning Team Integration (under discussion)
Combining Planning Team – merging system planner (J-Plan and 3PO) and payload planner (J-POC) into one JAXA planning team.
In addition, JAXA Ops Management Team (OMT) who is in charge of long-term plan management will be merged with near real-time planning team.
Cross Training for CANSEI & FLAT (under discussion)
To compensate manning resource each other, we are considering cross training to CANSEI/FLAT. i.e. CANSEI will be trained to get familiar with FLAT basic action (Emer response, Nominal Ops . etc.) and vice versa for FLAT. We’ll keep two system positions as is.
Enhanced User Operations
In order to achieve flexible and efficient experiment ops, user ops team (PI/CI/PD) will be trained to be able to conduct their own experiment under control of J-Flight, which is usually performed by Payload FCT.

16. Your Increment Lead J-Flights
Inc 43 Lead
Inc 44 Lead
Inc 45/HTV5 Lead
Inc 46 Lead
Increment 43 : Junichi Yamaguchi (Kyotaro is backup)
Increment 44 : Kyotaro Ida (Junichi is backup)
Increment 45 : Keiichiro “JJ” Sakagami (Akio is backup)
Increment 46 : Akio Koike (JJ is backup)
HTV5 (EP Ops) : Keiichiro “JJ” Sakagami

17. Increment Team Roles and Responsibility
Inc Lead J-Flight, OMT/IPM and IS closely cooperate.
Inc Lead J-Flight
Lead Inc JFCT members and POC for Inc Lead Houston FD/POD/Col-FD
Prepare for Inc Ops Products, Planning Input (OOS, WLP/STP, PPCR)
Responsible for Real-time Execution
Manage Troubleshooting for anomaly and Re-planning
OMT(Operations Management Team) and IPM (Inc Payload Manager)
Prepare for IDRD Input and Chit Coordination
Manage Program Level Decision at SSIPC and POC for Inc Manager/ISS IPM
OMT Rep goes to Houston with six months rotation to support IMMT in JSC.
Manage JAXA Resource during an Increment (System by OMT, PL by IPM)
Support Troubleshooting for anomaly and Re-planning from Program and Resource Management Perspective
IS (Increment Scientist)
Prepare for Science Mission Priority
Lead PI/User Integration Team (UI) and POC for LIS
Support Troubleshooting for anomaly and Re-planning from Science Mission Success Perspective

18. JEM Robotics Ops Schedule
JCX-2003XX
JEM Robotics Ops Schedule
NASA items
JAXA items
SMILES: Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb Emission Sounder
RRM: Robotic Refueling Mission
NRCSD: NanoRacks CubeSat Deployer
MCE: Multi-mission Consolidated Equipment
EP: Exposed Pallet
Note:
ExHAM: Exposed Experiment Handrail Attachment Mechanism
J-SSOD: JEM Small Satellite Orbital Deployer
SEDA-AP: Space Environment Data Acquisition equipment - Attached Payload
CALET: CALorimetric Electron Telescope

19. Small Satellite Deployment
J-SSOD
NRCSD
CYCLOPS

20. Responsibility for JEM Airlock Ops
JAXA Flight Controllers and Engineering team always support crew JEM AL operations.
For NASA H/W installation/removal onto/from JEM AL Slide Table, crew contacts OSO (NASA System) or POIC (NASA Payload).
Task Owner
JAXA
JEM AL Act
Inner Hatch Open
Table Extension to JPM
Slide Table I/F attachment Removal (if required)
NASA owned H/W Removal and Installation
Table Retraction to JEM AL
Inner Hatch Close
JEM AL Deact
NASA
JAXA 20

21. Increment 41 JAXA Utilization Themes Overview
2014
Sep
Oct
Nov
Soyuz
Progress
COTS VV
EVA
Kobairo Rack
Alloy Semiconductor
Saibo Rack
Cell Mechanosensing-2
Plant Gravity Sensing1
Ryutai Rack
Dynamic Surf
JAXA PCG #8
Soret Facet
MSPR
Zebrafish Muscle
None Rack
Area Padres 13
Biological Rhythms 48hrs
Earth Rim Observation
JEM Airlock/JEMRMS
NRCSD #3
SpinSat
38S
40S
39S
56P
57P
SpX-4
Orb3
US#27
US#28
RS#40
SpX-4↑
↓SpX-4
SpX-4↑
↓SpX-4
40S↑
↓39S
40S↑
↓39S
40S↑
Inc. 41 = Very High Density!

22. Increment 41 Generic Lessons Learned
Crew/Ground Communication Improvement
Two way communication is important to achieve mission success completely We uplinked science background and operations important points to crew via JEDI message/ DS, JAXA Weekly Summary and DPC, but they might be so one-sided with overloaded information and not be enough to elicit in-depth comments from crew members.
For more efficient communication/interaction, we’d like to use the following methods;
To have a task-oriented short briefing with crew members before/after the big activity to tell/hear an opinions directly.
To have a Crew/SSIPC conference periodically. (We had the weekly conference for the Japanese crew only.)
To use on-board views (XF-305) more aggressively for the situational awareness. (We hesitated to use views a little for saving crew resource. But, it should be trade-off the big science impact.)。

23. Increment 41 Generic Lessons Learned (cont’d)
Stowage Management Improvement
Well considered ground preparation for orbit stowage situation is necessary. And sharing the final configuration with crew/ground, proper consolidation and what if ? preparation are important We had a couple of issues caused by the stowage operations. Also, unmatured stowage operations often posed the serious high workload and overtime to the crew members.
We’d like to reduce stowage problems with the following improvements.
The small items should be brought together in medium quantity. It is difficult to find a small item in the big (2.0/3.0) CTB.
Consolidation and relocation activities had a significant effect to reduce total workload and missing items. A rearrangement of major items used in the periodical activity achieved a good result for saving the total duration.
Some of the stowage location in the JEM are difficult to access because the front panel (Hard Dummy Panel) needs to be rotated and it interferes with nearby cables. We are at work on swapping items with the other easy location and reconstruction of the HDPs.

24. Thank you for your attention!
Aiming to sustain good quality of operations beyond 2020, let’s keep in touch with closely together.
Good teamwork is a key to success of ISS!!