2nd Edition, 829 pgs, 2006, McGraw-Hill
ISBN 978-0073313214

The goal of this book is to provide processes, tools, and data that can make space mission operations more efficient and cost effective. It puts you in the position of a mission operations manger who is responsible for the early planning stages, designing the mission operations system and conducting daily operations. This book defines a process that helps you translate mission objectives and requirements into a viable mission operations concept. As mission operations manager, you must develop this operations concept early enough during concept exploration so the project manager can trade future cost of operations with current development costs.

Chapters 1 and 2 describe how the mission operations element blends in with the other elements of a space mission. Chapters 3 through 7 describe the thirteen mission operations functions, provide a process for developing a mission operations concept, present a model for evaluating the cost and complexity of conducting operations, and explain how to define and develop a mission operations system. Chapters 8 through 16 describe how we conduct routine, launch and early orbit, and special operations; plan and analyze the mission; and transport and process data. Finally, the last four chapters describe how we conduct interplanetary, international, microsatellite, and crewed mission operations, as well as the main differences between these missions and Earth-orbiting, uncrewed missions.

This book is intended for professionals and students involved in space systems engineering and space operations, including program managers, mission operations managers, spacecraft engineers and designers, project scientists, and operators. It's suitable as a textbook for a course in space mission operations, a supplementary text in other courses, or as a professional reference.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Space Mission Operations
2. Designing Space Mission Operations
3. Mission Operations Functions
4. Developing a Mission Operations Concept
5. Assessing Operations Complexity
6. Defining and Developing the Mission Operations System
7. Activity Planning
8. Conducting Space Mission Operations
9. Launch and Early-Orbit (L&EO) Operations
10. Space Navigation and Maneuvering
11. Communications Architecture
12. Ground Systems
13. Processing Data and Generating Science-Data Products
14. Assessing Payload Operations
15. Spacecraft Performance and Analysis
16. Spacecraft Anomalies
17. Interplanetary Space Mission Operations
18. International Space Mission Operations
19. Microsatellite Mission Operations
20. Human Space Flight Operations
    App. A Communications Frequency Bands
    App. B Mission Summaries
21. FireSat