Over the period of the fourteen-month contract a phased approach of incremental improvements to the existing system will be implemented to bring the MOC from manual operations to complete ("lights out") automation for routine operations.

ATSC's Landsat 7 project manager, Tegan Collier, said: "It is my intention to turn the Landsat Mission Operations Center into a showplace for automation technology using Altairis software."

Altair specializes in commercial-off-the-shelf software for highly automated satellite ground stations and launch vehicle control systems. The Altairis Mission Control System uses advanced Finite State Modeling technology and a modular, distributed, CORBA-compliant architecture.

In addition to Landsat 7, Altairis has been selected for MIDEX and other NASA programs as well as numerous other government and commercial customers.

Altairis provides a proven level of reliable automation not achieved by any other commercial TT&C software and has demonstrated scalability for automated control of large satellite constellations.

Its fully object oriented design allows full plug-and-play freedom to interface with other software packages and guarantees future upgrade paths for both software and hardware.

EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD

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