Satellite Flight Control Center Online Course

Course Contents

This Online Course provides an introduction to Flight Control Center functions, the course demonstrates satellite in-flight real-time control processes and analysis received telemetry data. The main structure of flight control center software packages, how can start a communication session with a satellite in orbit. Introduce a common database management system structure.

Flight Control Center is a constituent part of the Ground Control Station (GCS) to be used for provision of the satellite control within its active operation in an orbit. The satellite In-Flight jointly with the technical means of data control, reception and transmission from/to ground control station to ensures solution of the following functions on satellite’s control:

Planning of the control an forming of the command-program data on satellite instrumentation functioning control;
control of automatic transmission of the command-program data to / from ground control staion to the satellite’s board;
planning of satellite’s payload (camira), forming of payload’s working plan and working plan of a ground receiving station;