What is it about?
In a mission where all batteries on all spacecraft are now dead, and facing additional operational constraints with reduction of spacecraft controller team and shut down of the only Australia based ground station, the Cluster team re-invents eclipse strategies and saves costs in the process
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Why is it important?
By simplifying and reducing tracking needs during already highly constraint eclipse seasons the Cluster team has succeeded in improving the data return for the mission by making better use of saved tracking time and at the same time doing operations with less resources.
Perspectives
This simplification strategy is in line with a number of measures put in place to streamline operations for a 16 year old mission, that is doing is best to stay alive, effective and relevant for at least another half a decade
Bruno Teixeira de Sousa
European Space Agency
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This page is a summary of: Simplification as optimization: re-engineering Cluster operational strategy for eclipses, May 2016, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA),
DOI: 10.2514/6.2016-2617.
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