Print Email Facebook Twitter SIC: A new career in (tele)science? Title SIC: A new career in (tele)science? Author Vreeburg, J.P.B. Institution National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Date 1989-03-23 Abstract In order to generate constructive discussion on the use of the Space Station for scientific purposes, a possible realisation of operations management is presented. The realisation is chosen to deal with the two main user concerns viz. realtime experiment control and priority allocation in experiment scheduling. From Spacelab it is known that the first is too complicated for the occasional investigator whereas the second subject should be much more transparent for relaxed planning by users. The proposed operations are anchored on a key individual, the Science Interface Coordinator (SIC) . Each SIC has a professional accreditation with the Operations Control Centre for the Space Station and has thereby acquired an account for two types of operations currency, viz. Priorities and Utility Credits. The SIC is the single point of contact for his scientist-clients to the Space Station, as a lawyer is to a court of law. Only the SIC has mandate to enter experiment scenarios in the Timeline of scheduled operations. Such scenarios are accompanied by a priority declaration and by resource allocation requests for which the SIC account is to be charged. A scheduled operation has its priority Increased automatically when overtaken by a time horizon that is part of the planning structure. Thence, early planning opens the possibility to save Priorities. Other incentive schemes are possible since both Priorities and Utility Credits are transferable. The prerequisites, advantages and disadvantages of this hypothetical operations scheme will be discussed, for the elucidation of the merits of actually planned implementations. Subject Science Interface Coordinator (SIC) To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:a10e13d5-e74a-40c0-82bf-08237baa32e5 Publisher Nationaal Lucht- en Ruimtevaartlaboratorium Access restriction Campus only Source NLR Technical Publication TP 89138 L Part of collection Aerospace Engineering Reports Document type report Rights (c) 1989 National Aerospace Laboratory NLR Files PDF 89138.pdf 5.91 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:a10e13d5-e74a-40c0-82bf-08237baa32e5/datastream/OBJ/view