There’s no such thing as “Mission Control in a Box.” TALOS is the next best thing: a crew-centered problem-solving framework that gives crew members the tools they need to think like a flight controller.
The ABCD framework is all about setting up crew members for success in the face of an urgent vehicle anomaly. We give them the right puzzle pieces to understand the problem, safe the vehicle, and plan for a long-term solution.
Easy access to resources including telemetry, procedures, and schematics
A clear workflow that follows troubleshooting best practices
Nudges towards asking critical questions and considering downstream effects
Painless documentation that helps the crew as much as it helps MCC
Your gathering board is your safe space to brain dump your initial thoughts and observations. Quickly record and add photos, videos, and voice notes, and create timers to track progress.
Your board intelligently recommends telemetry, schematics, procedures and more based on what you’ve already added.
A key best practice of troubleshooting is to follow one path all the way through to “known good.” Your swimlanes represent different systems of the spacecraft.
Toggle the swimlanes open and closed to focus on one at a time, and when you’re certain a system is not the root of the problem, mark it as “know good.”
Within each system swimlane is four columns: knowns, unknowns, potential actions, and completed actions. The system is like your copilot: it will intelligently pull the base procedures you need to get started, and populate your “unknowns” column with the basic questions every flight controller needs to answer when solving a problem.
There’s no replacement for Mission Control, and the experts on the ground will still be a critical component for deep space problem solving. Give Mission Control a clear picture of what is going on onboard by pulling videos, voice memos, and images over from your board. Mission Control can send back information and recommended actions for you to pull onto your board.
