Enhanced Awareness in Space Operations Using Web-Based Interactive Multipurpose Dynamic Network Analysis

The dynamic network analysis (DNA) interactive visualization tool is a graph-based visualization tool that gives space operations staff the ability to comprehend complex relationships at stake in many different kinds of problems. The added value of DNA is exposed through different use cases applied to spacecraft operations. Operations engineers have shown an enhanced level of awareness when being able to visualize the dynamics of their problems. Tables, text, and numbers represent the way we communicate, but graph layouts and images represent, more efficiently, the way we think and mind map problems. Also, graphs represents patterns that our eyes are made to detect easily. By enabling the sharing of these mind maps and their semantics, we show how spacecraft issues can be detected earlier and, thanks to better insight, how they are solved more efficiently.