Space Mission Operations
For over 50 years, Leidos has supported mission operations for human space flight. Our responsibilities including planning of mission and research operations, training of the astronauts, flight controllers, and other ground personnel and well as “flying” the mission alongside the astronauts from Mission Control or other telescience centers including our Leidos Operations Center in Webster, TX.
Our high-qualified team is certified for each position including research integration and operations specialists, Mission Control Center – Houston and -Moscow flight control front- and back- room positions, certified crew trainers, baseline data collection team, and subject matter experts for operational decision-making support for radiation, human factors, lighting and other operational critical disciplines.
Proven Mission Support
- 26 years of planning on-board operations with coordination from national and international partners
- Planning crew’s workday 24 months to one day in advance of operation
- Replanning crew’s workday daily as operations adjust
- Trained 500+ employees for certification by NASA as a Mission Control Center Flight Controller
- Trained 100+ Astronauts on ISS operations
- 26 years of continuous, uninterrupted, global real-time mission operations support (24/7/365) avoiding collisions with space debris
- 24 years of continuous, uninterrupted, global real-time mission operations support (24/7/365) ensuring crew safety onboard the ISS
- Authored, validated, and conducted configuration management on 10K+ flight procedures, authored in a Universal Language understood by multiple National and International Partners
- Fabricated 5K+ hard copy procedures and checklists certified for flight
- Developed 1K+ console display tools to track telemetry data effectively and efficiently for analysis and monitoring
Capabilities
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What we do today
- Planning, training, and executing real-time mission operations
- Support mission preparation (Plan), Crew, Flight Controller, Instructor, and Analyst training (Train) and real-time mission execution (Fly) activities for the International Space Station, Commercial Crew, and Artemis programs.
- Support the ISS 24/7/365, with continuous monitoring of crew activities, onboard systems, payloads, and vehicle trajectory
- Develop hardcopy and electronic procedures, crew system enhancements, and customized crew applications
Space Crew Daily Schedule How we enable tomorrow
- Interacting, communicating, customizing
- Bring cutting-edge development of interactive electronic procedures, compatible with iOS and Surface Pro technology
- Develop the ability for flight controllers to succinctly communicate during real-time and off-nominal operations
- Develop customized software applications based on user’s requirements
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What we do today
- Leidos scientists and engineers support every crewed mission to the International Space Station
- Coordinate all pre-flight biomedical data collection including over 22,000 hours of testing for 70+ completed ISS experiments and 21 on-going experiments
- Provide certified training services for Astronauts participating in human and animal space research studies and coordinate with principal investigators to ensure proper execution
- Provide turnkey space flight analog facility management, engineering, and project execution for human subjects in the US, Germany and Russia
- Exercise professional, end-to-end project management discipline for Space Research Missions and individual biomedical space research experiments
How we enable tomorrow
- Tools and capabilities such as compute-at-the-edge, artificial intelligence, and autonomous technology for astronauts and space research as space missions move further from earth and require sophisticated support for critical decision-making with minimal or no guidance support from Earth
- Over 1,100 Leidos employees with PhDs and 50 distinguished technical fellows with a wide variety of scientific expertise to augment research, improve laboratory management, advance engineering processes, and deliver integration tools
