Electro-Optical/Infrared Weather System (EWS)
Abstract
Description: EWS will pursue multi-phase efforts utilizing rapid experimental/prototype contract vehicles to mature industry EO/IR technologies to provide global LEO coverage to meet SBEM Gaps 1 (CC) and 2 (TWI) and eventual on-ramp to operational EO/IR system to replace DMSP constellation. Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC) Other Transaction (OT) #1 is the prototyping effort, which will focus on maturing multi-spectral imaging capabilities to collect & disseminate terrestrial atmospheric phenomena to support DoD operations, while assessing industrial capabilities to provide CC and TWI data in a viable commercial business model. The program will pursue simplified sensor designs and corresponding lower size, weight and power prototypes potentially hosted on a proliferated LEO mesh network. To minimize risks associated with rapid prototyping effort to replace DMSP constellation, SpEC OT #2 will focus on further developing high maturity EO/IR system designs in competitive design sprints in a parallel path to SpEC OT #1. This path will provide viable on-ramp opportunity to field operational EO/IR system, should prototype demonstrations prove unsuccessful.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 8ad76f9b2bb7477a9a7c025ef9f7d164
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