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| Dr. Stephen Braham, Christine Pires, Steve Baird |
| copyright 2008 Mars Institute |
A unique component of HMP is the level of support for advanced planetary exploration systems and operations, in full-up, end to end, mission operations experiments. HMP has high-speed connections to the Internet via two satellite dishes, which allows for audio, video and data links all the way from mission operations centres at space agencies to the entire region around HMP. On top of that, the network can be made to emulate connections, in terms of delay, that range from moon missions to missions to Jupiter.
Since 1999 the primary exploration systems support at HMP have been provided by Dr. Steve Braham, Mars Institute/Simon Fraser University (SFU) and his team. Dr. Braham, now in his tenth field season, is the Chief Field Engineer and Associate Director for HMP, and, this year. He is the lead of the Exploration Systems Operations Centre (ExSOC) project at his lab at SFU, PolyLAB, which is a unit of the SFU Telematics Research Laboratory, lead by Steve's long-term research partner Professor Peter Anderson.
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