Mission Forge

Lead: Alex Barrie

The Mission Forge team is dedicated to exploring what new missions can be enabled by utilizing off-the-shelf analytic tools to develop synthetic models of science payload telemetry.

Payload Telemetry Center

The Mission Forge center for payload telemetry development​ can help you design, validate, and verify your instrument.

• We can help you to model, optimize, and maximize your science returns
• We can help you to validate specific algorithms in your specific mission scenario​
• We have tools to help generate plausible validation data and run that data through your algorithm via a flight-like interface​
• We have experienced systems and operations engineers who know the details of mission implementation​
• We can incorporate hardware in the loop to help verify and validate algorithms  with flight hardware​
• We can validate new operational concepts using synthetic payload data​
• We utilize MBSE to optimize mission design

Tools

To create synthetic missions, we are building a digital library of tools that are off-the-shelf, flight ready, validated, and documented. Tools include:

• Space Environment Telemetry Simulator (SETS)
• Module for Event Driven Operations for Spacecraft (MEDOS)
• CCSDSPy 
• OnAIR
• NOS3

Projects

Mission Forge supports several NASA projects, including:

• Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS)

• Lunar Gateway/HERMES'

• GDC
• Distributed Systems Missions (DSM)
• NAMASTE
• Enceladus/Ocean Worlds

Mission Development

The Mission Forge team explores new possible Heliophysics missions that are made possible by utilizing newly-developed off-the-shelf AI/ML/Analytics tools. Mission development includes:

• Identifying mission technology bottlenecks and gaps where an innovative solution would introduce a major leap in scientific advancement / mission design

• Interfacing with the Engineering Directorate (Code 500) to understand which mission operations could be enhanced with an AI/ML solution

• Working with the NASA AI Center for Excellence (606) to integrate existing efforts and tools into the CfHA toolkit

• Developing or adapting existing tools to a point where they can be used by a mission engineer who is not a subject matter expert in AI/ML

This may also include developing a testbed for designing and experimenting with AI/ML enhancements to mission operations.

Contact

Alex Barrie <alexander.c.barrie@nasa.gov>
Stewart Doe <stewart.w.doe@nasa.gov>