Defensive Space Analysis Tool (DSPAT): Version 2.0

Abstract

This manual explains how to use the Defensive Space Analysis Tool (DSPAT), which was developed to compare alternative approaches to space control for their mission effectiveness, feasibility, escalation risk, and political cost. Such comparisons are part of an analytical framework that RAND Project AIR FORCE developed in the report Gaming Space: A Game-Theoretic Methodology for Assessing the Deterrent Value of Space Control Options to help decision makers anticipate likely attacks on U.S. space assets and assess which space control options would help deter those attacks, versus which would risk escalating a confrontation or conflict, putting U.S. space systems in even greater risk.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1086719

Entities

People

  • Christopher S Lynch
  • Forrest E. Morgan
  • James Syme
  • Michael Nixon

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Basic Programming Language
  • Collateral Damage
  • Combat Readiness
  • Earth Orbits
  • Elliptical Orbits
  • Employment
  • Game Theory
  • Geosynchronous Orbits
  • Ground Based
  • Ground Stations
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Military Satellites
  • Operating Systems
  • Orbits
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Sequences
  • Sequential Games
  • Signals Intelligence
  • Space Systems
  • Spreadsheet Software
  • United States

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

  • Space