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title: Concept of Operation

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# Concept of Operation

## What do we mean with a Concept of Operation?

It is a documentation of how we deal with certain things on the groundstation. It will contain a plan for:

- How do we Time-Share on the groundstation?
    - between different functions/projects/satellites
    - how do we control the rotors for multiple satellites
    - how do we setup rx-link for multiple satellites
    - can it be flexible in such a way that it isn’t hardcoded for the specific satellites (flexible sdr parameters)
    - automatic handling of groundstation
- How do we do maintenance for the groundstation?
    - “Predictive Maintenances”
    - Scheduled & Unscheduled Maintenance
	- Answering the question: Is the current Groundstation suitable?
	    - Can we get new parts?
	    - Is it feasible to change the hard-coded parts?
	    - Can the chair help us?

## Why do we need a Concept of Operation?

- We need a Concept of Operation as a tool to negotiate with the chair. What do we need to negotiate:
	- Establish Trust with the chair
	- Justify our need for the Ground Station
	- Demand support from chair for certain things, like
	    - roof access for maintenance
	    - advice by experts

- We need a Concept of Operation so that the future MOVE team will have an idea how to deal with certain things on the groundstation
    - we don't want the next team to inherit groundstation problems the same way that the Move III team inherits Move II problems

- We need a Concept of Operation so that we can share the groundstation with other stakeholders. What stakeholders there are:
	- Move / Warr
	- university chairs for education (so professors or other people can use our groundstation for education)
	- Other Universities for use (like cooperation with TU Berlin)

## What are final deliverables for the Concept of Operation?

- A plan to potentially reworking the current ground station

- Document for September to negotiate with the chair
    - Maybe part of the document will be a Link Budget(?)

- A system to schedule access to the ground station for different stake holders
    - like a Google Calender to manage who can have access to the Ground Station in such a way to not interfere with MOVE operation

## What do we need to do now to create a Concept of Operation?

- Literature Research on how proper Concept of Operations is done

- Measurements/Information Collecting of parts the groundstation, so we get a clear overview of the current ground station
    - For the maintenance plan
    	- What is the most reocurring issues now?
    	- What needs to most attention
    - For maintenance of current groundstation to assisst Move II operation
        - Can we measure the attenuation caused by the PA/PA cable defects?