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Mars Express (MEX) is the first 'flexi' mission in the ESA long term scientific programme. The mission objectives are the exploration of Mars including high resolution stereo imaging and mineralogical mapping of the surface of the planet, subsurface sounding up to 4 km below the surface, atmospheric sounding and environmental and radio studies. Apart from the science objectives, the Mars Express spacecraft is able to provide data relay support for Mars landers. MEX was successfully launched on June 2, 2003 and has been in orbit around Mars since Christmas 2003. MEX is ESA's first mission to Mars and has been implemented and operated on a relatively small budget without excluding challenging requirements on both operations and science return. In order to meet these requirements a mission planning concept has been implemented that supports both spacecraft platform and science operations from the planning stage through to delivering the detailed command schedule. The major functions are provided by the Mission Planning group at ESOC, the Project Science Team at ESTEC and the Payload Operations Support team in the UK. Mars Express completed its nominal mission in November 2005 and has entered the extended mission phase. The mission continues to provide operational challenges with regards to power, thermal, uplink and downlink constraints. The late deployment of the radar and occasional problems with instruments meant that routine operations-type activities were interleaved with commissioning-type activities. Mission Planning has been an integral part of the overall operations concept providing feasible plans and output products for both routine and commissioning activities. The paper addresses the experience gained with the mission planning processes during the nominal phase of the mission, the tools implemented and the revision of the mission planning concept as a result of changes to the operations concept.

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