Effects of Communication Lag in Long Duration Space Flight Missions: Potential Mitigation Strategies

Joseph R. Keebler; Aaron S. Dietz; Anthony L. Baker

doi:10.1177/1541931215591002

Effects of Communication Lag in Long Duration Space Flight Missions: Potential Mitigation Strategies

Joseph R. Keebler, Aaron S. Dietz, Anthony L. Baker

Human Factors & Behavioral Neurobiology

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Abstract

As humanity aims to travel to Mars in the next two decades, it will be faced with numerous issues related to the coupling of humans and technology. Specifically, the communication lag of up to 40 minutes between long duration space flight (LDSF) crews and mission control back on earth will lead to unknown effects on teamwork and the multi-team system through the degraded quality of communication. This paper will review research on virtual teamwork and unmanned systems as it relates to communication, specifically with implications for extended communication delays and lag that may occur in LDSF missions.

Original language	American English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931215591002
State	Published - 2015
Event	Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 59th Annual Meeting - Los Angeles, CA Duration: Jan 1 2015 → …

Conference

Conference	Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 59th Annual Meeting
Period	1/1/15 → …

Keywords

long duration space flight
LDSF
communication lag
communication delays
teamwork

Disciplines

Other Aerospace Engineering
Systems and Communications
Other Psychology

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