Speaker
Description
The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) science operations team is nearing completion of a major redevelopment of the mission timeline creation software. This “Timeline Tool” is used for planning an instrument with 1-5 day timelines in LEO, often containing 10-15 planner-chosen observations per 24 hour period. We have strived to not just improve and refresh the aging timeline software for the 13-year-old mission, but to carefully formalize rules and data structures likely applicable to similar future missions and to modularize the planning software into general and mission specific components. One key goal is to enable relatively rapid and inexpensive adaptations to future space-based missions. We plan to convert and extend this too for the upcoming Multi-Slit Solar Explorer (MUSE), Extreme Ultraviolet High-throughput Spectroscopic Telescope (EUVST), and Chromospheric Magnetism Explorer (CMEx) programs; our presentation will cover the early stages of the adaptation for MUSE. We are also beginning to explore of how the redeveloped timeline web application could support automated “first drafts” of timelines to reduce the day to day manual labor of planning. These approaches to planning would use scripting coordinated observations from another instrument’s plan and/or modern LLM agents to interpret the various sources of instructions and construct a full science timeline via API calls to the timeline backend.