NASA's
Playbook tool is providing mission planning and scheduling support for two separate missions in NASA's
Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. With the successful lunar landing of
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 and the launch of
Intuitive Machines' IM-2, Playbook is being used for the operations of NASA payloads, helping NASA personnel maintain awareness of science activities as well as review allocations of constrained resources, such as power availability and data limits.
Playbook, which is a mobile software platform built to support the next generation of planning, scheduling, and execution tools for space exploration, was developed by the Human Systems Integration Division's
Human-Computer Interaction Group at NASA Ames Research Center.
The CLPS program is a collaboration between
Johnson Space Center and
Ames Research Center which is helping to shape the transition to NASA's work with commercial launch providers, while also establishing best practices for robotic payload planning for the Artemis program and beyond.
