Internet-based operations for the Mars polar lander mission

• Main Authors: Paul G. Backes, Kam S. Tsot, Jeffrey S. Norris, Gregory K. Tharpt
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.515.3335; http://trs-new.jpl.nasa.gov/dspace/bitstream/2014/13838/1/00-0210.pdf

The Mars Polar Lander (MPL) mission is the first planetary mission to w e Internet-based distributed ground operations where scientista and engineers cod labornte in daily mission operations f+om multiple geo-graphically distributed locations via the Internet. This paper describes the operations system, the Web In-terface for Telescience (WITS), which is used by the MPL mission for Internet-based operations. The MPL mission is a lander which will land near the south pole of Mars in December, 1999. WITS wall be wed for generating command sequences for the lander’s s t e m camera, robotic arm, and robotic arm camem. 1