Space Related Research Projects

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Space Related Research Projects

• Space Systems Academic Group
• Naval Postgraduate School

Fall 2007
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NPSAT1 Small Satellite Project
Operational Payoff/Transition Targets Hardware-in
-the-loop education. Space flight demonstration
of lithium-ion batteries, triple-junction solar
cells, PC-based Command Data Handling
subsystem, micro-electromechanical system (MEMS)
sensors. Space flight experiment platform for
ionospheric physics nowcasting space
weather Deliverables Space savvy officers
Space Cadre Elite Space flight data on spacecraft
technology for future spacecraft
architectures Space weather data for improved
forecasting / nowcasting with implications for
navigation, targeting, communications
 

• NPS Spacecraft Architecture and Technology
  Demonstration Satellite
• Space Systems Academic Group
• Space Cadre Graduate Education
• Small Vehicles Technology
• Space Power
• Space Weather

Technical Objective NPSAT1 is a low-cost
technology demonstration satellite hosting a
number of experiments. NPSAT1 is a joint program
between NPS and Space Test Program
(STP). Technology Challenges Built and flown by
officer students, faculty and staff. Full life
cycle development of a space system. Technical
Approaches Myriad opportunities for thesis
research. Space flight provided by STP. Ground
operations facility at NPS. CDR completed in Dec.
2002. Most recent review completed in May 2004.

• Cost and Schedule
• System-level tests start 3 Feb. 2006
• Finish system-level tests 28 May 2006
• Mission readiness review 29 May 2006
• NPSAT1 delivery (earliest date) 4 July 2006
• ESPA integration (earliest date) 10 Aug. 2006

Student Involvements More than 20 MS theses
completed.
Contact Info PI Rudolf Panholzer rpanholzer_at_nps
.edu [phone] Proj. Mgr. Dan
Sakoda dsakoda_at_nps.edu [phone]
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Spacecraft Research and Design Centerwww.aa.nps.n
avy.mil/agrawal/srdc/

• Director Distinguished Professor Brij Agrawal
  agrawal_at_nps.edu
• Research Projects
• Spacecraft Acquisition, Tracking and Pointing
  Space Systems
• Optical Beam Jitter Control and Vibration
  Isolation
• Adaptive optics and Large Space Structures

Spacecraft Relay Mirror Test Bed
Optical Beam Jitter Control Test Bed
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NPS SPACECRAFT ROBOTICS LABORATORY

• Director Prof. Marcello ROMANO (NPS-MAE)
• Five Master Students
• Two visiting PhD Candidates
• Ongoing projects (analysis lab experiments)
• Autonomous Docking (sponsor AFRL)
• Multi-Spacecraft Proximity Navigation
  On-orbit Assembly (sponsor NPS)
• Space Manipulator (sponsor NPS)

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Space Control ResearchProfessor Terry Alfriend

• Space Control
• Space Situational Awareness
• Space Surveillance
• Dynamics and Control of Formation Flying
  Satellites
• Autonomous Rendezvous and Docking
• Spacecraft Attitude Control and Dynamics

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Configurable Fault Tolerant Processor
Develop techniques to improve the Reliability and
Performance of FPGA based reconfigurable
computers in the space environment. Develop
software radio experiments Techniques under
consideration include full TMR at the system
level, partial TMR at the block or
component level, partial and complete
re-configuration, and various error coding and
detection schemes. Additional experiments are
invited, and test and development systems are
available via the web.
Fy 08 continue on-orbit experiments with
Midstar CFTP - develop and ground
test follow-on configurations FY09 flight test
next generation
Prof Herschel Loomis x3214 hloomis_at_nps.edu Prof
Alan Ross x3769 aross_at_nps.edu
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NPS Center for Radiation Hardened ElectronicsT.
Weatherford EC

• Semiconductor Characterization
• Flash X-ray
• (Pulserad 112A)
• 100 MeV LINAC
• Silvaco TCAD software
• III-V Si
• Collaborations with,
• UCB, AFRL, Silicon Valley firms, many others

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CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS FORSHERIF MICHAEL, ECE
Dept/SSAGmichael_at_nps.edu , Sp-470/656-2252

• Modeling, Design and Optimization of
  state-of-the-art Multi- Junction Photovoltaic
  Devices
• For the first time the commercially available
  software package Silvaco, Virtual Wafer
  Fabrication, suite was used to optimize and
  design Multi-Junction Solar and
  Thermophotovoltaic devices. Optimization using
  Genetic Algorithm has proved to be of great value
  in introducing New designs of high efficiency
  spaced-based solar cells.
•   Design, Fabrication and Testing of Radiation
  Tolerant ASIC VLSI Devices for Space-Based
  Systems This is a continuation of the
  on-going research in this field. The research
  including testing the new technique for designing
  radiation insensitive networks through the
  reduction of the circuits active sensitivity. The
  work includes the use of the school linear
  accelerator for electron radiation and possible
  neutron radiation source. Programmable Integrated
  Operational Amplifiers design, fabrication and
  testing of Stray-Insensitive Composite OAs CMOS,
  Bipolar BiCMOS and GaAs technology. Developing
  and implementing Switched Capacitors Networks and
  Programmable Filters. Several chips have been
  fabricated and tested, more evaluation is
  needed). Possible redesigning and refining.
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• Spacecraft power beaming/On-Orbit Laser
  Annealing of radiation damaged Satellite solar
  Panels Developing an experiment to investigate
  the possibility and the benefits of spacecraft
  Laser power beaming from ground stations.
  On-orbit annealing of radiation degraded
  satellites solar panels using the new Minority
  Carriers Annealing techniques at low temperature,
  Complementing spacecraft power generation for
  failed batteries, and power beaming for electric
  propulsion to perform orbits transfers, LEO to
  GEO orbit raising, orbit maintenance / station
  keeping or orbital maneuvering, are all possible
  benefits.
•   CubeSat/NPSAT1 Solar Cells/Advanced Batteries
  Experiments Designing an autonomous Solar cell
  measuring experiment and performance evaluation
  of advanced space hardware including LI Ion
  Batteries for NPS PANSAT1 and the New CubeSat

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Underwater Launch Simulation

• Develop long term in-house expertise for CFD
  simulation of various stages of underwater
  submarine missile launch. (USN only)
• CFD Modeling of missile launch dynamics in
  shallow waters (Sponsor Navy SSP Office)

Ashok Gopinath (Code MAE) Joe Sinabaldi (Code MAE)
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Blast Stability of Missile Structures

• Structural behavior of a missile exposed to a
  strong cold X-ray blast in an exoatmospheric
  environment is being studied numerically.
• Material integrity under large shock and impulse
  formation is being investigated.
• NPS Project Numerical investigation using CTH,
  AUTODYN and other structural dynamics codes.

Ashok Gopinath (Code MAE)
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Systems Engineering Professor Frank Shoup

• Joint project with AFIT in support of a JFCOM
  request, on the subject of Joint Battle
  Management Command and Control.  Collaboration
  with AFIT Center for Systems Engineering.

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Maritime Domain Awareness
Expanding sources of data and fusion techniques
Supports all aspects of naval warfare

• Problem Make effective use of all available
• information to improve Maritime Domain
• Awareness
• Solution Fuse multiple sources of often
• dissimilar data
• Naval Postgraduate School workbench
• for testing candidate algorithms
• Measures of Performance / Effectiveness
• Multi-hypothesis tracking
• Develop Alternate Data sources and fusion
• techniques

LNG Tanker Loads in Nigeria

• FY08
• Develop MOPs / MOEs
• Begin testing data discovery and fusion
• concepts
• FY09 Transition successful concepts
• (especially to other MDA-related TENCAP
• projects)

Prof Dan Boger x3671 dboger_at_nps.edu Prof
Herschel Loomis x3214 hloomis_at_nps.edu Prof Alan
Ross x3769 aross_at_nps.edu Radm Tom Betterton
tcbetter_at_nps.edu
NPS research teams (faculty and students) will
explore advanced concepts for MDA in
unconstrained, rigorous test environment
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Navy Space Campaign JSpOC Professor Charles
Racoosin

• Development of the Navy Space Campaign to fully
  integrate space based capabilities into Naval
  operations
• Review of the role of the Joint Space
  Operations Center (JSpOC) in support of the
  STRATCOM Space and Global Strike JFCC

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Remote Sensing ResearchRC Olsen

• Projects in the exploitation of imagery from
  civil and military imaging systems (Quickbird,
  NTM), including coral reef studies Navy divers?
• Projects in the exploitation of LIDAR for target
  detection and terrain classification, viewing
  through canopy. Includes field work (exotic
  travel)
• Non-imaging systems.