ICS has a rich history with Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL) leading up to the 2005 NASA Software of the year award for the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE). From the Software of the Year Award:
ASE enables science-driven autonomous spacecraft to increase its science return by two orders of magnitude. It accomplishes this efficiency by autonomously detecting and tracking dynamic scientific processes, and has been successfully used on the Earth Observing One (EO-1) Mission. ASE is a new approach to space exploration: instead of relying on ground operations, a spacecraft can now respond autonomously to detected science events. Monitoring of volcanic activity and flooding from space is greatly improved using ASE, thereby impacting mankind as a whole. ASE is in development for use on the NASA/JPL Mars Odyssey Mission, and is under consideration for numerous future NASA missions. This technology has been the subject of numerous journal articles and conference presentations. The value added to NASA has already reached millions of dollars, and will undoubtedly increase as ASE is integrated into future missions. ASE is now the primary mission operations software for EO-1, not an experiment. As of June, 2005, it has flown over an 18-month period and has executed as the primary means for autonomous EO-1 operations since November 2004.
The award-winning ASE work was lead by JPL's
Steve Chen.
ASE uses the following technologies to automate spacecraft operations:
The ASE program was an outgrowth of the New Millennium Program Space Technology-6 (NMP ST-6) work that was done with collaboration by JPL, the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) and Interface and Control Systems. The NMP ST-6 work laid the foundation for the ASE framework as part of the AFRL's TechSat-21 cluster of satellites and lead up to the successful launch and operations of the AFRL's TacSat-2 satellite.
Additionally, ICS has worked on several project with JPL and the Colorado Space Grant Consortium (CSGC) over the last several years. ICS has supplied the SCL flight and ground software to CSGC for the following student-developed programs:
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