Project Description: 

Major: B.S. Physics; B.S. Mathematics (with minor in Computer Science) Company: Honeyell Technology Solutions, Inc. (HTSI) Mentor: Vera Hendricks and Haim Brumer Code: 444 - Space Science Mission Operations

The Integrated Trending and Plotting System (ITPS) is a comprehensive system for the storage, extraction, and analysis of spacecraft housekeeping and telemetry data. It provides flight operations personnel, engineers, and experimenters with easy access to complete full-resolution telemetry data. Using precise filtering, reporting, and plotting capabilities, ITPS can analyze data via the generation of telemetry plots, tables, and reports. The major functions of ITPS are summarized below:

Plot Generation: The generation of telemetry plots to examine the graphic designs of telemetry data. Plots may be customized and manipulated interactively as well as stored and printed.

Report Generation: The generation of different types of data analyses reports in a variety of formats with a variety of available options provided in their generation. Some of these reports include ASCII formatted telemetry value reports, statistics reports, limit generation reports, delta violation reports, etc..

Data Ingestion: The ingestion of raw mission telemetry data into the ITPS telemetry Archive. The Archive, composed of single day telemetry files contains data extracted from spacecraft real-time and playback files. The compilation of the data and composition of the Archive files is referred to as Data Ingestion. Once the data has been ingested into the Archive, it can be extracted and analyzed by other ITPS components.

Web Access: The availability of ITPS to remote users who can generate products and view existing products via the web.

Contribution:

Jeremy spent the majority of his internship working closely with his mentors at Honeywell-TSI as a software engineer on software development for the ITPS package, a trending and plotting system for spacecraft telemetry. His primary responsibilities were to service customer ERs (Enhancement Requests) and DRs (Deficiency Reports). Essentially this involved correcting problems with the software code or creating additional functional elements as requested by the ustomers. During the course of his internship, Jeremy resolved approximately 21 software change requests, which included fixing radio buttons, adding drag and drop capabilities, and performing data conversion of mission specific data files to the proper format. A majority of his work was intended to support WIND/POLAR where he worked directly with some of the operations staff correcting issues with importing archived data for ITPS. In his various software projects, Jeremy was able to integrate the programming skills gained through his college courses into a real world environment, as well as come to understand the complete operational cycle of software and program development.