Remote Access to/from COF-CC to/from SSCC, POIC and other 
decentralized Columbus Ground Segment Facilities.

Juergen P. Fein
juergen.fein@dlr.de
DLR/GSOC


Abstract:
The Columbus Orbiting Facility Control Center (COF-CC) will be 
resposible for the Mission Operations of the COF, which is the 
European segment of the International Space Station Alpha (ISSA).
It is anticipated to have the capability to remotely access on-line 
data processing systems and data bases from several facilities of the 
Columbus ground segment. Prime candidates for these facilities are 
the COF-CC, the SSCC, the POIC and selected user sites within
Europe.
The idea of having a decentralized operations scenario with the 
possibility that each agency which provides an element to the ISSA, 
can operate its own element, needs fast information exchanges 
with low failure rates and high reliability for secure operations of the
whole space station.
This might be achieved by processing specific data only in those 
centers, where the expertise is, but that other centers will have the 
capability to remotely login for monitoring these data at any time 
the information is needed. This will also provide a high operational 
flexibility for ops. teams and users.

It is foreseen to run this scenario as a precursor experiment during 
the MIR96 mission, which might give a lot of insight into 
possibilities for remote access, and may raise the confidence in 
safety/security of such a capability.