SatConReport: A Satellite Post-Pass Debriefing Aid for Operations Support and Training

To minimize operations costs, mission analysts and planners are not usually present during satellite contacts. Nonetheless, analysts must be apprised of all key information gained, especially regarding anomalous events.SHAI, with our contractor Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., proposes to develop SatConReport, a post-pass debriefing aid that will assist satellite operators to efficiently prepare comprehensive and accurate satellite contact reports. SatConReport willalso enable improved simulation-based training for satellite operators.SatConReport will combine techniques from Intelligent Agent Technology, Case-Based Reasoning (CBR), Model-Based Reasoning (MBR), and Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) to support distributed teams of operators during both operations and training. Agenttechnology will enable fusion of information from distributed sources, and realistic simulation-based training. CBR and MBR will enable report generation to be goal-directed and hypothesis driven. ITS technology will tailor training to each operator'sskill level.Honeywell Technology Solutions, Inc., as a highly successful provider of satellite operations software and services, will contribute expertise regarding satellite post-pass debrief procedures.The goals of the Phase I research are to thoroughly analyse the satellite post-pass debriefing task, develop knowledge representations and reasoning techniques to codify contact debrief procedures, and prove the feasibility of our approach by building aproof-of-concept prototype.The proposed technology will directly benefit both military (e.g., SBIRS-Low) and commercial LEO constellations, reducing operations risk as well as operations and training costs.