Telemetry Packetization for Improved Mission Operations

• Main Author: Greene, Edward P.
• Other Authors: NASA
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1976
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609401; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/609401

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / September 28-30, 1976 / Hyatt House Hotel, Los Angeles, California === The requirements for mission operations data management will accelerate sharply when the Space Transportation System (i.e., Space Shuttle) becomes the primary vehicle for research from space. These demands can be satisfied most effectively by providing a higher level source encoding function within the spaceborne vehicle. An Instrument Telemetry Packet (ITP) concept is described which represents an alternative to the conventional multiplexed telemetry frame approach for acquiring spaceborne instrument data. By providing excellent data integrity protection at the source and a variable instrument bandwidth capability, this ITP concept represents a significant improvement over our present data acquisition procedures. Realignments in the ground telemetry processing functions are described to take advantage of the ITP concept and to make the data management system more responsive to the scientific investigators.