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Ed Crowder
(703)671-0508 ex.23
ecrowder@fti-net.com
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Features

Scheduling Features

For government and commercial spacecraft control network schedulers and managers who are dissatisfied with their current slow, non-optimal manual and semi-automated scheduling systems, our software is a spacecraft control network scheduling system which automatically develops schedules for spacecraft control network interactions with spacecraft. Unlike scheduling software from other companies, our software provides optimal schedules in real-time for very large and complex spacecraft control network scheduling and analysis problems.

Feature Benefits
Automated Scheduling

Greatly reduced manpower required to produce spacecraft control network schedules vis a vis manual scheduling.

Correspondingly lower operating costs.
Real-time Scheduling    Many “what-if” schedules in short time span.
Vastly reduced time to produce schedule.
Dynamic reaction and adaptation to changing conditions.
Optimal Scheduling Maximum possible priority-weighted spacecraft contacts for government spacecraft control network.
Thus, increased utilization/effectiveness for government network.
Maximum possible revenue and profit for commercial network.
Thus, increased revenue/profit for commercial network.
Simple, Intuitive, and Comprehensive GUI Reduced learning/training time.
Understandable results.
Permits, but doesn’t require, manual intervention.
High commonality with SOPSMAN® spacecraft control network analysis system. Identical scheduling solutions, identical speeds, nearly identical GUIs. 75% common inputs/outputs.
Only one system to learn for scheduling and analysis purposes.
Schedule the network the same way you analyze the network.
Optimal Rescheduling Reschedules required/desired changes to original schedule according to priority weighting while minimizing impact on already published schedule for government spacecraft control network.
Reschedules required/desired changes to original schedule according to revenue/profit while minimizing impact on already published schedule for commercial network.

 

Analysis Features

For government and commercial spacecraft control network and network engineers who are dissatisfied with their current slow, trial and error, manual and semi-automatic network analysis systems, our software is a spacecraft control network analysis system which automatically shows the mission effectiveness and revenue impacts of alternative network configurations and alternative constellation compositions and sizes. Unlike scheduling software from other companies, our software provides optimized network configurations in real-time for very large and complex spacecraft control network analysis problems.

Feature Benefits
Automated Analysis

Greatly reduced manpower required to analyze alternative spacecraft control network configurations, and spacecraft constellation compositions and sizes vis a vis manual analysis.

Correspondingly lower operating costs.
Extremely Fast Execution   Many “what-if” analyses of alternative network configurations and spacecraft constellation compositions and sizes, in short time span.
Vastly reduced time to produce comprehensive analysis.
Optimization-based Analysis Alternative network configurations for alternative spacecraft constellation compositions and sizes judged based on contribution to maximizing the priority weighted number of spacecraft contacts for government spacecraft control network.
Alternative network configurations for alternative spacecraft constellation compositions and sizes judged based on contribution to maximizing revenue/profit for commercial networks.
Repeatable results.
Simple, Intuitive, and Comprehensive GUI Reduced learning/training time.
Understandable results.
Permits, but doesn’t require, manual intervention.
High commonality with SOPSMAN® spacecraft control network scheduling system. Identical scheduling solutions, identical speeds, nearly identical GUIs. 75% common inputs/outputs.
Only one system to learn for analysis and scheduling purposes.
Analyze the network the same way you schedule the network.
Frontier Technology, Inc.
Engineering & Analysis Group
5205 Leesburg Pike, Suite 1110
Falls Church, Virginia 22041
(703)671-0508
Copyright 2003 by Frontier Technology, Inc.
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