Discussion on integration management of TT&C information

Abstract

To support more and more satellite and launch vehicle missions, tracking, telemetry and command (TT&C) system is challenged by requirements of more equipments operation, more complex system management and more intelligent decision-making. With the development of information technology (IT), promoting IT usage in TT&C system is the only way to meet the challenge. Based on the views of IT evolution stages, information integration issues, combined with TT&C system, this paper proposed a TT&C information integration management model and a corresponding application system, which both have three levels, a base-level with automation as subject, a middle-level with process management as subject and a high-level with intelligence as subject. Comprehensive discussion shows that the information integration stage in IT evolution is the key development stage for TT&C system. To improve information integration efficiency and ability, the three-layer model is an instructive model for practical application. © 2013 Tsinghua University Press, and Springer-Verlag.