Geometric and Access Time Utilities for a Payload Operations Planning Software
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Abstract
The Payload Operations Planning Software is a tool that satellite mission operators use for handling the deterministic aspects of mission operations, which include schedule validation and searching for observation opportunities. The software is applicable to any Earth observation satellite mission. This work presents the design and implementation of two modules within the planning software, namely the Geometric Utilities and the Access Time Utilities. The Geometric Utilities perform calculations involving ellipsoidal polygons representing area regions on Earth’s surface, spacecraft sensor fields, and specular reflections on Earth’s surface. The Access Time Utilities compute the periods of access between a spacecraft and objects of interest, which are ground stations, ground targets, latitude ranges, polygon areas, and specular points. Both modules are integral to finding observation opportunities. A Technology Demonstration Mission with radio frequency sensing, bistatic radar, and imaging capability is used as an example for describing design and development.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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