NGST Operations: Anticipated savings
- High orbit – L2 (Savings ~3x)
- Integrated science and mission operations (Savings ~2x)
- Sequential event driven vs time-based
- Simpler instruments (Savings ~2x)
- HST/NGST use same infrastructure at zero growth
- Spike, OPUS, Archive, GSCII, Grants
- Common integration/test/ops for NGST
- Early, integrated ground-space I/F definition
- Use ground system components for I&T
Simpler planning, scheduling, and ops