KARI acquires GMV’s mission-planning system for its first moon mission

GMV’s inhouse mission-planning solution, flexplan, has been taken up by the (South) Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to be evaluated as the mission planning system for its KPLO moon mission.

KPLO (Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter), set underway in the 2010s, will be the Korean Space program’s first lunar mission. After its launch, scheduled for late 2020, KARI aims to attain mastery of the necessary technologies for carrying out scientific research on the moon’s topography and resources. Once placed in orbit, KARI’s ambitious lunar program will then move on towards a second phase of landing a Rover carrying instruments for on-the-spot scientific analyses.

flexplan will provide KARI with continuous support not only for critical mission functions but also for mission support functions such as non-conflicting ground and Space segment scheduling, automation of ground pass scripts, building of stored command codes, onboard memory modeling, generation of activities reports and slew maneuver planning.

GMV’s solution support any complex mission. flexplan is now operating missions for the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), NASA Goddard Space and Flight Center and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) as well as the commercial operator Yahsat, to mention only a few.