Mission operations is the least glamorous part of building a space program — and arguably the most important. A spacecraft that drifts outside its operational envelope because the operations team wasn't watching is a program failure that cannot be undone. Here is how LaythTech designed its ground operations architecture to prevent that.
Physical Infrastructure
The LaythTech Mission Operations Center (MOC) occupies a dedicated floor in our Riyadh facility. The primary telemetry wall consists of six large-format displays driven by a custom MCS implementation built on OpenMCT, the NASA-developed open-source mission control framework.
Network architecture is triple-redundant: primary fiber connection to the ground station array, secondary microwave link to an offsite ground station, and a VSAT backup that activates automatically on primary failure. Latency on the primary path is under 12ms round-trip to the antenna array.
