<span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Dear Colleagues,</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Mission operations
is the program aspect that ties all systems and components together. As
such, mission operations concepts and standards should be part of the very
early planning phases of any mission. It is recommended that the
International Deep Space Interoperability Standards document suite include
a volume dedicated to mission operations interoperability standards applicable
to both space and ground segment systems.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">The Deep Space Interoperability
Standards team should carefully consider adopting standards from the broad
set of operations-related standards developed within the Mission Operations
and Information Management Services (MOIMS) Area of the Consultative Committee
for Space Data Systems (CCSDS).</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">MOIMS standards are
dedicated to interoperability services and data formats defining a basic
set of interfaces, interactions and services common in the Space and Ground
domains. A general trend is the movement of intelligent applications from
Ground to Space and the standards are an enabler for this movement due
to their common nature and technology abstractions. </span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Reasons for early inclusion
of CCSDS MOIMS standards in the Deep Space Programs include:</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">-
Hard lessons learned in the early phases of the ISS. The
lack of upfront definition of operations standards has resulted in a very
complicated ground segment with duplication of the similar interfaces </span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">-
The set of MOIMS standards currently available includes key
standards that are commonly used in most of space missions today.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">-
LOP-G is already considering several related CCSDS standards
for communications and security, and the same rationale is applicable for
the use of MOIMS Standards.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">-
MOIMS Services focus on the interface boundaries, with minimal
invasion into the hosting systems. Therefore, they are easily usable
on new or legacy and space and ground systems.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">-
MOIMS Standards simplify the integration of systems (legacy
and new applications) and support heterogeneous communications protocols,
therefore facilitating and simplifying inter-agency co-operation.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">-
MOIMS Standards are developed internationally and approved
by the 11 CCSDS space agencies. They are the technical foundation for smooth
international cooperation.</span>
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Over time, mission operations concepts and procedure will
mature and change, driving the LOP-G system in ways not currently considered.
Mature interface and service standards can help simplify system redirection
/ expansion.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">-
The MOIMS service framework allows easy expansion of new
capabilities as locally-defined services or as new Mission Operations (MO)
standards through CCSDS. In particular, its modular architecture enables
inclusion of new services at a very late stage of project development with
no need to redesign the already developed components/applications. </span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">-
MOIMS standards facilitate avoidance of unneeded software
developments.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">The MOIMS area is very
interested in providing its set of standards to the LOP-G community. For
this reason, should we identify the need of a specific standard that is
not covered by the available set, we are ready to be flexible and, if agreed
by the participating agencies, adapt the MOIMS workplan to the LOP-G needs.
Clearly, LOP-G agency staff are welcomed to contribute to the work. </span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">We also would like
to re-mark the fact that the MOIMS includes the “Telerobotics Working
Group” that unfortunately has been dormant for a couple of year due to
lack of interest from the agencies. We think instead that standards in
this field would be critical in a multi-asset and multi-organization set
up as the LOP-G one. We would very welcome a revived interest by space
agencies boosted by the LOP-G interest in order to re-start the work of
this working group.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">A whitepaper has been
prepared to provide an overview of available mission operations standards
that can directly benefit large missions such as the Lunar Orbital Platform
– Gateway. The paper has been submitted as comment to the call made
by the International Deep Space Standards group (</span><a href=https://www.internationaldeepspacestandards.com/comment/><span style=" font-size:12pt;color:blue;font-family:Arial">https://www.internationaldeepspacestandards.com/comment/</span></a><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">,
but it is not clear if the on-line submission was successful as no positive
feedback was received) and has been posted to the public CCSDS MOIMS Site
at</span>
<br><a href="https://cwe.ccsds.org/moims/docs/MOIMS%20Area/LOP-G/180525%20CCSDS%20MOIMS%20Input%20to%20LOP-G%20Final.pdf"><span style=" font-size:12pt;color:blue;font-family:Arial"><u>https://cwe.ccsds.org/moims/docs/MOIMS%20Area/LOP-G/180525%20CCSDS%20MOIMS%20Input%20to%20LOP-G%20Final.pdf</u></span></a><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">
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<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">We would appreciate
if you could consider our comment and pass it to whoever may be concerned.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">Best regards,</span>
<br>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Mario Merri
Brigitte Behal</b></span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><b>MOIMS Area Director
MOIMS Deputy Area Director</b></span>
<br><span style=" font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial">European Space Agency
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