• OASIS-CC: Operations and Science Instrument Support - Command and Control

  OASIS-CC provides many functions necessary to monitor and control spacecraft and their scientific instruments. Developed by the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, OASIS-CC communicates between users and their instruments during all phases of instrument development and use: testing, integration, and operations. (The term "instruments'' refers to anything OASIS-CC communicates with -- instruments, spacecraft, test equipment, and ground support equipment.) It receives instrument telemetry and extracts the individual data items, translates user commands into binary or ASCII formats expected by the instrument, and formats data for display to the user.

• OASIS-PS: Operations and Science Instrument Support - Planning and Scheduling

  The Operations and Science Instrument Support - Planning and Scheduling (OASIS-PS) is a software tool designed for resource-oriented planning and scheduling applications. The OASIS-PS system is written in Ada and has four major software subsystem components. The OASIS-PS software is designed to support a wide range of planning and scheduling applications and can easily be tailored via database modifications, DECwindows updates, and new rule base creation.

• Albatross: Mariner Mars 1971 Ultraviolet Spectrometer (UVS) and TeleVision Camera (TV) visualization tool

  This program (written in IDL) allows the user to view any location of any size of the surface of Mars. The surface can be one of topography (MGS MOLA), visual wavelength photographic (Viking MDIM), thermal inertia (MGS TES), or geology (USGS GEO). Requires download on a UNIX or Linux compatible system, and v5.4 or higher of IDL

Below is a listing of software tools that are no longer in use and have been "retired":

• CASPER: Cassini Sequence Planner Software

  This package allows a graphic visualization of virtually any solar system object from the point of view of the Cassini spacecraft. Observation sequences can be designed, modified, saved, and viewed using CASPER. These sequences can be distributed to other CASPER users for their input and information. CASPER makes use of "Modules" from the Cassini Module Dictionary for observation design which allow users to determine the optimal parameters for individual observations. CASPER estimates the slew times between individual observations within a session, but it is not intended to be a scheduler. Rather, it shows users what types of observations can be achieved at different times in the orbital tour and computes how long the observations will take. The graphical presentation gives users information on resolution and geometry of observations, and CASPER is able to compute detailed geometrical information such as phase angle distribution within a field of view.

• GGS: Geometry and Graphics Software

  GGS is a multi-mission tool to help planetary scientists visualize the geometric conditions under which their data were obtained. It allows the user to access spacecraft geometry information, formatted in the NAIF SPICE kernel and Toolkit system, to display previously taken data. GGS can also be used to investigate and design future spacecraft/body opportunities and observations. Any mission whose spacecraft configuration can be represented by

  1. scan-platform mounted all-axis stabilized
  2. body mounted all-axis
  3. body mounted spinning

  could use GGS, especially those currently supported with SPICE kernel generation.