AF-funded ORSSats
Abstract
AF-funded Operationally Responsive Space projects are optimized for prioritized theater use and/or surge, augmentation and replenishment of traditional space capabilities. The ORS Concept of Operations (CONOPS) drives the need for satellites featuring high degrees of modularity, standard interface vehicles, and the use of plug and play payloads and buses. Responsive satellites will be capable of rapid satellite initialization and be networked with other national security space, air and surface systems. ORS projects provide a broad range of capabilities directly supporting warfighter needs. Potential missions include communications, data exfiltration, blue-force situational awareness, positioning, navigation and timing, weather, and battlefield intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). The highest priority project is ORS-1 being fielded to respond to CENTCOM's urgent need to rapidly provide ISR for theater users. The remainder of the funding is to continue maturing ORS enabling elements including the Radio Frequency (RF) Modular Payload mission kit (this mission kit will enable Synthetic Aperature Radar (SAR), Communications, and Tactical Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities), complete funding for TacSat-4 support, and to satisfy high priority needs for augmentation and reconstitution, such as Space Situational Awareness, Counterspace, ISR, and Missile Warning. The capabilities planned for TacSat-4 and the RF Modular Payload mission kit were selected to systematically mature the ORS enabling elements to fully meet the USSTRATCOM-specified responsiveness timelines and 2007 NDAA cost targets. This includes the development of a modular open system architecture employing plug and play standards, a Rapid Response Space Works, a modular space vehicle (MSV), and integration with the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center. Additionally, these funds will support on-going analyses, employment and integration of new concepts and methods for enhancing the responsiveness of the existing capabilities (Tier 1) and quick reaction opportunities such as the Jumpstart rapid development, integration and launch demonstrations. When ORS-appropriate USSTRATCOM urgent needs arise during execution year, programmed ORS projects may be modified or delayed to meet those urgent needs. ORS Mission Kit Enabler Projects include satellite vehicle(s), launch, integration, operational experimentation, and interim transitions from ORS derived solutions to operational capabilities. Each mission kit also includes enabler investments to improve the responsiveness and lower the cost of designing, fabricating, launching, and operating ORS space capabilities. These mission kits culminate in on-orbit capabilities ready for operational experimentation and, when desired, transition to enduring operations. ORS is working in conjunction with Third Generation Infrared Surveillance system (3GIRS) to mature the technology for a wide field of view, Commercially Hosted IR Payload (CHIRP), including payload development, on-orbit testing, and algorithm development. ORS is working with the University of Hawaii's (U of H) Hawaii Space Flight Laboratory (HSFL) and Sandia National Laboratory on the Low Earth Orbit Nanosatellite Integrated Defense Autonomous Systems (LEONIDAS) program. LEONIDAS is to design, fabricate, launch, and perform on-orbit operation of small- and micro-satellites for early detection of missile launches by hostile forces
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 64A020_0604857F_4_3600_PB_2011
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