STP BRIEF to SACT 2000

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Space Test Program Briefing June 2001
LT Paula Hildebrand (USN) Mission Design
Branch Space Test Program Naval Liaison
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SecDef Direction on STP (6 Nov 95)
STP Management and Funding Policy directs . .
. that the Space Test Program will maintain a
highly technical, capable management organization
for providing payload integration, launch
support, and orbital support. and . . .
reaffirms STPs role as a multi-user space
program whose role is to be the primary provider
of spaceflight for the entire DoD space research
community.
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STP Modes of Space Flight

• Micro/Mini Spacecraft
• Microsat (
• Minisat (
• Commercial/DoD Secondary or STP Shared Launch
• Small Class Spacecraft
• Pegasus/Taurus Class Launch
• Larger Class Spacecraft
• Approximately one mission every 4 years per PMD
• Delta II / EELV Class
• Potential Multiple Spacecraft vice One Large
  Spacecraft
• Piggybacks
• STP Experiments Added to Non-STP Spacecraft
• Commercial and NASA/DoD Targets of Opportunity
• Space Shuttle Missions
• Shuttle Payload Bay and Middeck Lockers
• International Space Station

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• 12 Weather/Space Weather (Including 1, 8, 9,
  10)
• 3 Micro Devices/Micro Satellite Technology
• 2 Communications
• 2 Space Force Protection/Force Enhancement
• 1 Power (Batteries, Solar Arrays)
• 2 Space Radiation (Radiation-Hardened
  Electronics)
• 13 Others
• Optics, Satellite Constellations/Formations,
  Navigation, X-Ray Imager, Human Physiology, Solar
  Sails, Spacecraft Thermal Control, Inflatable
  Antennas, etc.

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CORIOLIS Program Overview

• Program Objectives
• Coriolis spacecraft (S/C) will support the
  objectives of the WindSat and Solar Mass Ejection
  Imager (SMEI) experiments
• Mission Life - 3 Years Design, 5 Years Goal
• Initial Launch Capability (ILC) -- June 2002
• Program Cost Approximately 44M
• Includes spacecraft, LV fairing modification,
  1st year of on-orbit operations, launch range
  costs
• Does not include cost of experiment development
• Does not include funding for Titan II -- provided
  by SAF/AQS to Titan SPO

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MLV-05 Mission Description

• ESPA--EELV Secondary Payload Adapter--Space Test
  Program and Air Force Research Lab
• Better utilizes EELV margins and provides
  standard access to space for small satellites
• MLV-05 will be the first flight of ESPA

ESPA
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ESPA
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Back up Slides
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SPACE TEST PROGRAM ONGOING NAVAL SUPPORT
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NEAR TERM PLANNING FOR NAVY EXPERIMENTS