Mission Control Space Services Inc.

Published purpose

In the emerging commercial space exploration sector, space companies will deliver government and private payloads to the Lunar surface in each mission. A single spacecraft will carry several payloads, each with different and potentially conflicting priorities and operations requirements. Many will generate a large amount of data that could be left behind on the Moon due to constrained data transfer rates. The project aims at developing a modular multi-payload communications and data management system that can be easily installed on spacecraft. This system will provide end-to-end data security and integrity for payloads, offer dynamic downlink prioritization for payload data, manage multi-payload command and control operations, provide surface communications for deployed payloads and provide lander-based payload data storage and advanced data processing applications. This new system will enable space delivery companies to offer high quality of service to their payload customers and ensure that operators can receive all the data that is most relevant to their mission objectives.