Demonstrations
Abstract
The Demonstrations mature and demonstrate OPIR technologies in ground and on-orbit prototypes, advance system performance, algorithms, and resiliency for future OPIR systems. The demonstrations explore technology maturation, qualification of new components, and subsystem/component prototyping to evolve the OPIR architecture. The demonstrations support maturation of MDP algorithms for tactical and strategic applications which are critical efforts to enhance PoR capabilities and to reduce program risks for future OPIR systems, whether new systems or evolutions of the PoR. The Wide Field Of View (WFOV) demonstration matures WFOV technology and validates multi-mission capabilities including the potential for a single sensor to simultaneously perform strategic and tactical missions. Collection of on-orbit WFOV data is critical to develop algorithms to process large data sets generated by emerging large format focal planes and to reduce risk for possible future architectures. The WFOV payload and bus are separate development efforts. The WFOV testbed program provides a bus capable of demonstrating on-orbit mission performance and mitigating the development risks for employing WFOV sensors. The testbed program includes contractual options to integrate, test, and launch prototype, developmental WFOV payloads with a government-owned free-flyer spacecraft or on a host government or commercially owned satellite. The WFOV Testbed will host the WFOV payload. As an integrated Space Vehicle, the WFOV system will prove on-orbit mission performance of WFOV sensors. The WFOV payload will provide the critical on-orbit data required to develop and validate WFOV algorithms, as well as on-board MDP throughput requirements for strategic missile warning. The technology demonstration space vehicles under development are responsive to emerging stressing targets to the current missile warning architecture, as well as the rapidly evolving threats to the enterprise to inform the future OPIR architecture to include SBIRS, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and other mission partners. The assets will be Class-C missions with a 3-5 year designed mission life and an initial launch capability beginning in 2024. The technology demonstrations will incorporate resiliency components and features while advancing the state of the art performance technology. The demonstrations will focus on the rapid acquisition, technology insertion, and launch of advanced missile warning technologies and system resiliency components. These assets will incorporate threat mitigation technologies and other resiliency features with the goal of demonstrating these technologies in ground and on-orbit. These demonstrations will facilitate tech insertion, validate technical performance, inform future OPIR requirements, and reduce technical risk to the enterprise.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 5f3c82256e15c97bed68120189c19d62
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