AURORA ENGINEERING LLC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration STTR Phase I: T10

Description

The Module for Event Driven Operations for Spacecraft (MEDOS) provides a key advancement along the road to autonomous spacecraft operations: a simple, computationally lightweight method for integrating knowledge (be it human expertise, AI/ML based correlations, physical relationships, etc.) into an adaptable system for translating detectable events into spacecraft actions. MEDOS will be developed by a partnership between Aurora Engineering and the University of Coloradorsquo;s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (CU/LASP), forming a team with decades of experience in operational space flight missions.MEDOS is an adaptable system for autonomous spacecraft control. It creates new telemetry points based on analytical combinations of current and previous raw telemetry. These derived telemetry points are compared mathematically to defined events. If the current derived telemetry is a close match to a defined event, then the associated operational activity is initiated. MEDOS provides a step on the path toward trusted spacecraft autonomy in a way that is flexible, simple, and informed by underlying physical relationships.