This presentation will cover, the current and future, technical and organizational opportunities and challenges with virtualizing a multi-mission operations center. The full deployment of Goddard Space Flight Center’s (GSFC) Virtualized Multi-Mission Operations Center (vMMOC) is nearly complete. The Space Science Mission Operations (SSMO) organization’s spacecraft ACE, Fermi, LRO, MMS(4), OSIRIS-REx, SDO, SOHO, Swift, and Wind are in the process of being fully migrated to the vMMOC. The benefits of the vMMOC will be the normalization and the standardization of IT services, mission operations, maintenance, and development as well as ancillary services and policies such as collaboration tools, change management systems, and IT Security . The vMMOC will also provide operational efficiencies regarding hardware, IT domain expertise, training, maintenance and support. The presentation will also cover SSMO's secure Situational Awareness Dashboard in an integrated, fleet centric, cloud based web services fashion. Additionally the SSMO Telemetry as a Service (TaaS) will be covered, which allows authorized users and processes to access telemetry for the entire SSMO fleet, and for the entirety of each spacecraft’s history. Both services leverage cloud services in a secure FISMA High and FedRamp environment, and also leverage distributed object stores in order to house and provide the telemetry. The services are also in the process of leveraging the cloud computing services’ elasticity and horizontal scalability. In the design phase is the Navigation as a Service (NaaS) which will provide a standardized, efficient, and normalized service for the fleet's space flight dynamics’ operations. Additional future services that may be considered are Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS), Telemetry and Command as a Service (T&CaaS), Flight Software Simulation as a Service, etc.

1. Ground Systems Architectures Workshop(GSAW) ‐ 2017 ; Los Angeles, CA March 13‐16, 2017 ; Session: Virtualization and Cloud
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) - Space Science Mission Operations (SSMO)
Presented by
Haisam Ido
Principal Systems Engineer
haisam.ido@nasa.gov
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Space Science Mission Operations
KBRwyle Technology Inc.
© 2017 by SSMO. Published by The Aerospace Corporation with permission.
The Virtualized Multi-Mission Operations Center (vMMOC)
and its
Cloud Services

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Objective of Presentation
• What is Space Science Mission Operations (SSMO)?
• What is the vMMOC?
• Available vMMOC Services
• “Looking Beyond the Horizon”
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What is Space Science Mission Operations (SSMO)?
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) - Space Science Mission Operations (SSMO)
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What is Space Science Mission Operations (SSMO)?
• SSMO provides project oversight for 19 NASA space science missions
for which GSFC is responsible
• SSMO has a diverse set of missions:
• heritage/launch date
• orbit regime
• spacecraft bus type
• mission profile
• communication networks
• In-house and Out of House Mission Operations Centers (MOCs)
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SSMO Spacecraft in Operations
Mission Launch
Year
MOC
Location
Science Type # s/c Orbit Regime Catalog #
ACE 1997 GSFC Heliophysics 1 L1 N/A
AIM 2007 LASP Heliophysics 1 LEO 31304
ARTEMIS* 2007 UC Berkeley Heliophysics 2 P1, lunar orbit; P2,
Lunar Lagrange Point 1
30581, 30582
Fermi 2008 GSFC Astrophysics 1 LEO 33053
IBEX 2008 Orbital Heliophysics 1 HEO (T = 9 days) 33401
IRIS 2013 ARC Heliophysics 1 LEO
LRO 2009 GSFC Planetary (Lunar) 1 Lunar Orbit N/A
MAVEN 2013 LM - Denver Planetary 1 Mars Orbit N/A
MMS 2015 GSFC Heliophysics 4 HEO 40482, 40483, 40484, 40485
OSIRIS-REx 2016 LM-Denver Planetary 1 Heliocentric N/A
Van Allen Probes
(RBSP)
2012 APL Heliophysics 2 HEO 38752, 38753
RHESSI 2002 UC Berkeley Heliophysics 1 LEO 27370
SDO 2010 GSFC Heliophysics 1 GEO 36395
SOHO** 1995 GSFC Heliophysics 1 L1 n/a
STEREO 2006 APL Heliophysics 2 Heliocentric n/a
Swift 2004 Penn State Astrophysics 1 LEO 28485
THEMIS 2007 UC Berkeley Heliophysics 3 HEO 305880, 30584, 30585
TIMED 2001 APL Heliophysics 1 LEO 26998
WIND 1994 GSFC Heliophysics 1 L1 n/a 5

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What is the virtualized Multi-Mission Operations Center
(vMMOC)?
What is the vMMOC?
The vMMOC’s Objectives are ...
● Rapid and efficient provisioning and orchestration of
spacecraft mission operation environments.
● Break the barrier to mission operations and enhance
accessibility
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• Multiple-missions Operated from one center
• Local virtualized infrastructure
• Access to a secure public cloud computing infrastructure
• Situational Awareness Dashboard (a SaaS)
• Telemetry as a Service (TaaS)
•Soon to be Telemetry, and Tracking as a Service (TTaaS)
• Navigation as a Service (NaaS)
What is the vMMOC?
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vMMOC’s High Level Infrastructure
Closed Mission
Network
Restricted
Mission Network
Open Mission
Network
CNE – NASA
Network
Internet
Exchange
Instrument
User
Community
Common Services
FermiACE LRO
SDO SWIFT
MMS
(backup)
OSIRIS-REx
(backup)
SOHO Wind
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• Shared:
•Infrastructure
•Product formats
•Networking interfaces
•Workflows & Procedures
•Security implementations
•Hardware and software
•Core staff
•Lessons-learned
•Culture
What is the vMMOC?
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What is the vMMOC?
GSFC - SSMO
Storage
Storage
PM’sPMs
PM’sVMs
Data Producers & Consumers
Private virtualized infrastructure
AWS GovCloud
Storage
Distributed
Object
Stores
InstancesInstances
Instances
Public Cloud Computing (secured)
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Situational Awareness Dashboard
vMMOC Services - Situational Awareness Dashboard
Break the barrier to data access
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• Provide local and remote users an integrated, situational
awareness dashboard of major spacecraft and ground events
• Secure
• Tailorable, self-service capability to access all spacecraft
timelines
• Liberate the data
• Empower each engineer to tailor requests for any SSMO spacecraft
• A web service based on NIST’s Software as a Service (SaaS) model
vMMOC Services - Situational Awareness Dashboard
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vMMOC Services - Situational Awareness Dashboard
A timeline view of ACE, Fermi and LRO
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vMMOC Services - Situational Awareness Dashboard
A view of a closeup of MMS1
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vMMOC Services - Situational Awareness Dashboard
A view of LRO
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vMMOC Services - Situational Awareness Dashboard
Execute General Mission Analysis Tool (GMAT) in the cloud
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Telemetry as a Service (TaaS)
vMMOC Services - TaaS
Break the barrier to data access
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vMMOC Services - TaaS
• Provide local & remote users access to telemetry & tracking
• Secure
• Tailorable, self-service capability to access all SSMO
spacecraft telemetry & tracking:
• Liberate the data
• Empower each engineer to tailor requests for any SSMO spacecraft
• Each engineer can perform analysis without interfering with operations
workflows
• A web service based on NIST’s Software as a Service (SaaS) model
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vMMOC Services - TaaS - Web Portal
A view of the portal
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vMMOC Services - TaaS - Web Portal
A view of a plot of wheel speeds
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Navigation as a Service (NaaS)
vMMOC Services - NaaS
Break the barrier to data access
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Navigation Services
● Maneuver planning
● Maneuver execution
● Maneuver reconstruction
● Orbit estimation & control
● Attitude estimation & control
Scheduling & Planning in Support of Navigation
● Maneuvers
● Network Availability
● Antenna Availability
● AOS/LOS
● Shadows
● Interference
● Tracking
Navigate the Spacecraft in
Support of Mission Operations
vMMOC Services - NaaS - Its functions
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“Looking Beyond the Horizon”
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) - Space Science Mission Operations (SSMO)
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• With the coming age of OneWeb, and other massive spacecraft
operations proposals, how does one:
• Design, Model and Simulate Ground and Space Segments ?
• Leverage Cloud Computing & Create Service Models, such as:
• Spacecraft as a Service (SCaaS)
• Flight Software as a Service (FSWaaS)
• Ground Segment as a Service (GSaaS)
• Auto Provision, Orchestrate & Terminate services at will
How would one simulate hundreds of spacecraft?
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Thank you.
Any Questions?
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