Goals of JWST S&OC Systems Engineering

The responsibilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Science and Operations Center (S&OC) include: observation proposal generation support, planning, and scheduling; Observatory health and safety monitoring, command data uplink and telemetry capture; data processing, calibration, archiving, distribution, and analysis; monitor and control of Observatory optical performance; and providing a reliable source of configured data for subsystem operations. Through a strategic set of goals, S&OC System Engineers have supported S&OC development and prepared the S&OC for Observatory commissioning and operations. These goals support the principle of 'science systems engineering' and are consistent with standard systems engineering processes.