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A goal of future missions will be an increased level of automation to lower costs, shifting the role of spacecraft operators during nominal phases from being a part of the control loop to becoming a supervisor. A supervisor requires a good overview of all related systems. An electronic operation logbook, if properly integrated in the infrastructure, can be a powerful tool to increase the situational awareness and stay on top of things. Nomenclature LEOP = Launch and Early Orbit Phase MCS = Mission Control System SOE = Spacecraft Operation Engineer SPACON = Spacecraft Controller

Operating satellites comes with several challenges that are shared with other industries. Monitoring of assets, processing large amounts of data and analyzing this data are common problems. In particular, satellite and constellation monitoring shares many similarities with other monitoring tasks, e.g. monitoring of a server infrastructure. Instead of creating bespoke software for specific problems or missions, it can be very beneficial to leverage open-source tools that are freely available and adapt them to the requirements of the mission.