Onboard Autonomy on the Intelligent Payload EXperiment (IPEX) Cubesat Mission: A pathfinder for the proposed HyspIRI Mission Intelligent Payload Module

The Intelligent Payload Experiment (IPEX) is a cubesat that successfully launched in December 2013 and is currently flight validating autonomous operations for onboard instrument processing and product generation for the Intelligent Payload Module (IPM) of the Hyperspectral Infra-red Imager (HyspIRI) mission concept. We first describe the ground and flight operations concept for HyspIRI IPM operations. We then describe the ground and flight operations concept for the IPEX mission and IPEX operations are validating the proposed HyspIRI IPM operations. We then detail the current status of the IPEX mission and results from the mission thus far.