Patent ID: 7558654

Claim:
An apparatus for providing a flight operations integrated planning and analysis tool (FOIPAT) to determine and display results of the feasibility of collecting flight vehicle telemetry with predetermined assets, comprising: a collection feasibility analysis (CFA) tool that analyzes telemetry links for sources that move relative to collectors to determine which collectors to be used during vehicle launches; a vector transformation (VTX) tool that transforms orbital state vectors from one earth-centered astronomical reference frame to others; a trajectory propagation (TrajProp) tool that generates ephemeris and trajectory input files for the CFA tool; an interface that integrates the CFA tool, the VTX tool, and the TrajProp tool, the interface including a main interface screen, wherein the apparatus accepts a user selection and a user input on the main interface screen, loads data based on the user selection and the user input, executes individual programs to generate an output based on the user selection and the user input, and plots and displays the output with an appearance based on the user selection.