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In order to reduce operation costs and improve the utilisation of resources the European Space Operations Centre is starting to implement systems that will enable the automation of mission operations. The operational model adopted for these new systems is based on the operations concept successfully used over many years of a split in responsibility between shared resources and mission-dedicated resources. This paper discusses the approach taken in the design of these systems.

This paper describes the migration from the current manual ESTRACK ground station allocation and scheduling process towards an automated approach. The automated approach will finally be implemented by the ESTRACK Management System (EMS), which provides the means to automatically plan ground station allocation, generate executable ground station schedules and monitor correct ground station schedule execution. The migration process will be discussed in the light of the experience gained during the acceptance tests of the first two (out of three) implemented EMS sub-systems, namely the ESTRACK Planning System (EPS) and the ESTRACK Scheduling System (ESS).

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