IMPLEMENTATION AND VALIDATION OF ALGORITHM FOR AUTOMATED OPERATIONAL PLANNING OF COMMUNICATION SESSIONS BETWEEN SPACECRAFT AND EARTH STATIONS
The paper considers the process of distribution of communication sessions between spacecraft and earth stations in the form of activity diagrams. To implement the algorithm, an analysis of the business processes of the distribution of communication sessions when controlling spacecraft between earth stations is made. The criteria for an optimal communication session are formed. The software implementation of the algorithms is performed in the Mathcad environment, which allows testing the obtained algorithms with a limited number of earth stations and spacecraft. For an adequate assessment of the obtained algorithm, additional validation is carried out in the AnyLogic simulation environment. The program results for the automated planning of communication sessions and the simulation model of the distribution of the session demonstrated the efficiency of the developed algorithm.