There’s no such thing as “Mission Control in a Box.” TALOS is the next best thing: a crew-centered problem-solving framework that gives crew members the tools they need to think like a flight controller.

Diagnosis as Simple as ABCD

The ABCD framework is all about setting up crew members for success in the face of an urgent vehicle anomaly. We give them the right puzzle pieces to understand the problem, safe the vehicle, and plan for a long-term solution.

Access

Easy access to resources including telemetry, procedures, and schematics

Best Practices

A clear workflow that follows troubleshooting best practices

Critical Thinking

Nudges towards asking critical questions and considering downstream effects

Documentation

Painless documentation that helps the crew as much as it helps MCC

Your kneeboard,
but smarter

Your gathering board is your safe space to brain dump your initial thoughts and observations. Quickly record and add photos, videos, and voice notes, and create timers to track progress. 

Your board intelligently recommends telemetry, schematics, procedures and more based on what you’ve already added.

Access
Intelligent recommendations get you the right data at the right time.
"I'm thinking is this kind of like your notebook filled with sticky notes"
- Crew Member

Work the problem, one swimlane at a time

A key best practice of troubleshooting is to follow one path all the way through to “known good.” Your swimlanes represent different systems of the spacecraft.

Toggle the swimlanes open and closed to focus on one at a time, and when you’re certain a system is not the root of the problem, mark it as “know good.”

Best practices
Follow one path at a time, all the way through to “known good.”
“Basically, you're helping me do a storyboard, lopping off branches on the fault tree.”
- Crew Member

Don’t let known unknowns sneak
up on you

Within each system swimlane is four columns: knowns, unknowns, potential actions, and completed actions. The system is like your copilot: it will intelligently pull the base procedures you need to get started, and populate your “unknowns” column with the basic questions every flight controller needs to answer when solving a problem.

Critical Thinking
TALOS provides nudges towards thinking about near-future impacts.
“Possible next steps is not a list; it's a tree. It's like playing chess. Thinking two moves ahead is one thing. Thinking four moves ahead is a much more complicated thing.”
- Crew Member

Easy knowledge sharing with ground experts

There’s no replacement for Mission Control, and the experts on the ground will still be a critical component for deep space problem solving. Give Mission Control a clear picture of what is going on onboard by pulling videos, voice memos, and images over from your board. Mission Control can send back information and recommended actions for you to pull onto your board.

DOCUMENTATION
Easily record images, videos, and sound recordings. Drag them onto your plan to share with Mission Control.
“[Ground] can dig in even deeper and figure out if I have to go EVA and tighten some fittings or whatever the other possibilities might be”
- CAPCOM
AccessBest PracticesCritical ThinkingDocumentation