Mission Statement

The JSC TSC is the gateway to access the Human Space Science Intranet, where ISS experiment activities and science information can be easily accessed by the remote users and Principle Investigators (PIs). The PI and User community will have the ability to effortlessly check TSC services, POIC services, ISS science activity plans, experiment schedules, and confidently transfer experiment data over a secure channel in a low-cost environment. Security, especially the network security with Firewalls, is important for protecting PI experiment data confidentiality from other non-experiment related PIs and Internet users. The TSC security policy is used to determine acceptable traffic flow to and from each PI.

Finally, the TSC currently provides around the clock support, seven days a week. The actual schedule will be based upon on-board experiment activities. As an added benefit, the PI can monitor their science and operation over the Internet via the TSC. The Mission Operations and Data Systems team, located at the TSC will respond to product and service questions from any of the PIs supported by the TSC. Our job is to ensure that all queries and requests are handled satisfactorily.

The JSC Telescience Support Center data system provides data acquisition, data processing, data distribution, and data archive services for the currently defined users.