Space Mission Development Capabilities

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1 Space Mission Development Capabilities HSFL Overview Presentation Updated January 6, 2017 HSFL Contact Phone: (Hawaii Space Grant)

2 Demand for Small Space August 26, 2016: The Economist Technology Quarterly In less than 60 years of space flight, the world has launched about 6500 satellites to space of which about 1000 are still operating The Economist (08/26/16) OneWeb: 648 microsats for communications SpaceX: 4425 microsats for communications Google: microsats 20 for remote sensing Spire: 44 microsats for observation BlackSky: 60 microsats for remote sensing Demand for space launch and small sats has shifted from Government to commercial groups. Hawaii positioned for small space Dedicated small launch facility possible Greater payload to orbit from US site UH/HSFL infrastructure support for small sats HSFL Objectives Foster an aerospace economy in Hawaii. Provide catalyst for microsatellite industry in Hawaii. Enable small launch opportunities from Hawaii. Enable creation of high-tech/high paying jobs for Hawaii citizens. 2

3 HSFL Overview: Vertical Integration Spacecraft Partner with NASA Centers and others to advance small spacecraft design. Design, build, launch, and operate kg small satellites for science and education tasks. Support technology validation missions as well as other University missions. Integration and Test Clean rooms in UH/POST are used to assemble & test satellites - Systems integration - Thermal-vacuum testing - Vibration/shock testing - Payload spin balancing - Attitude control testing Instruments The HSFL can call on a diverse group of instrument-developing faculty from HIGP and SOEST. A number of businesses in Hawaii also develop a wide array of instrumentation. The HSFL will partner with these organizations to provide technology demonstration opportunities. NASA Centers (Ames and JPL) are interested in joint technology missions. Launch Vehicle and Launch Support Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) Local launch facility and mission support Modify existing PMRF launch pad for railfitted and modified VAFB Scout launcher. Kauai Test Facility (KTF)/ Sandia National Lab Experience with solid rockets and missile design. Use Super-Strypi launch vehicle. Can lift ~270 kg (594 pounds) to low-earth orbit (400 km). Heritage working with PMRF as on-site vehicle integrator and launch agent. Ground Station & Mission Operations UH/HSFL maintains UHF/VHF receiving stations with Kauai CC and Honolulu CC staff. Ground station provides command and control broadcast as well as data downlink capabilities. Mission Ops Center POST 5 th floor using COSMOS software. 3

4 HSFL Integration & Test Equipment Intlvac Thermal Vacuum Chamber 1.6 m I.D. x 2.25 m long, 10-8 Torr Spin Balancer Vibration and Shock Table Tests objects 1.2m x 1.2m Hz to 7000 kgf; kgf shock ADCS Testbed (Astro-Fein) Air-bearing platform for up to 150 kg satellites Magnetic Field, Sun, GPS simulations 4

5 HSFL Facilities Usage SUMMARY: Test Facility Specs Thermal Vacuum Chamber 1.6 x 2.25 m, 10-8 Torr, C Vibration Table Tests objects 1.2m x 1.2m Hz to 7000 kgf; kgf shock ADCS Test Facility Air-bearing platform, Magnetic Field, Sun, GPS simulations, up to 100 kg satellite 1-Week ROM Cost $18k $19k $26k HSFL provides access to its small satellite test facilities Support from HSFL engineers Custom projects with custom quotes ROM cost includes engineering time to prepare the facility. 5

6 HSFL Ground Stations Honolulu Community College X-band Affiliated Ground Stations: Alaska Space Facility (S-band) Surrey Space Centre/SSTL (UHF/VHF/S-band) Kauai Community College UHF/VHF/S-band UH Manoa NRL MC3 GS UHF/S-band 6

7 HSFL Mission Ops Software Comprehensive Open-architecture Solution for Mission Operations Systems (COSMOS) Software framework to support spacecraft mission operations Set of tools: Mission Planning & Scheduling Tool (MPST) Mission Operations Support Tool (MOST) Ground Segment Control Tool (GSCT) Data Management Tool (DMT) Flight Dynamics Tool (FDT) Analysis Tools Test Bed Control Tool (TBCT) Open architecture to enable modifications and adaptation to new missions and MOCs User-friendly interfaces and short learning curves for users and software integrators 7

8 ORS-4 Mission: November 3, 2015 HSFL mission partner for rail and microsat development. Largest rail launcher in the world built and successful HiakaSat 50-kg microsat delivered by NASA and Air Force standards. ORS-4 terminates ~60 seconds into flight 1st stage motor issue ORS-4 Takeaways: HSFL receives $29M contract $5.1M in salaries $3.9M in overhead to UH 130 Hawaii students receive training/experience with HiakaSat HSFL partnerships for future microsat work X-Bow commercial follow-on missions 8

9 ORS-4 Mission: November 3, 2015 UH News Video

10 HSFL R&D Platforms SUMMARY: Size 3U 6U 12U 50 kg 100 kg Pointing 1-5 <1 <1 <1 <1 Comm. Payload UHF, VHF, (S-Band, X-Band) 1 kg, 1W UHF, VHF, S-Band, X-Band 2 kg, 5W UHF, VHF, S-Band, X-Band 4 kg, 10W UHF, VHF, S-Band, X-Band 10 kg, 10-20W UHF, VHF, S-Band, X-Band 30 kg, 20-30W S/C ROM $0.7M $1.3M $2.5M $3.5M $6M 1-Year Mission ROM $1.5M $2.3M $4.0M $6.5M $12M Mission ROMs include US launch costs (Electron) plus 1 year Mission Ops HSFL microsat R&D missions for under $12M. HSFL accepts risk to test new space technologies while training workforce. HSFL Integration and Test Facility available to industry partners. HSFL tailored mission operations solutions with COSMOS. 10

11 Hawaii Space Grant Overview NASA Space Grant and EPSCoR Programs Space Grant: Workforce Development for US citizens. EPSCoR: Research Infrastructure Development. HSFL: Created as workforce and infrastructure development project. Hawaii Space Grant Members Educational: UH-Hilo, Hawaii CC, UH Maui College, Kauai CC, Windward CC, Honolulu CC, Kapiolani CC, Leeward CC, UH-Manoa, U Guam. Corporate: Strategic Theories Unlimited (Kauai), Hawaiian Electric Company (Oahu). Space Grant Pipelines NASA focused Remote sensing, engineering, space science Undergraduate research focus but starting at K-12 K-12 Activities reach thousands of students and parents 2015 numbers: 500 educators and 4000 students. Astronaut Appreciation Days Honolulu and Hilo 600 student/parent pairs register in hours. FESTival Nights Classroom visits in evenings Robotics after school programs: VEX, FIRST, Brushbots. Windward Aerospace Lab and Activities. 11

12 Undergraduate Research On average, HSGC engages 150 undergraduate students per year with unique research experiences with UH System faculty mentors. ~ 75 HSGC research projects have a NASA science focus. ~ 130 HSFL students helped to design and build HiakaSat. ~ 55 students continue to work on satellite related projects each year. HSGC mentors come from a wide array of departments and campuses. IMUA Project: $500K NASA Grant won by Community Colleges. 2 successful suborbital launches in 2015 and 2016 involving Windward, Kauai, Honolulu, and Kapiolani CC s. Diversity in Research 48% of HSGC Research Fellowships go to Underrepresented Students 27% of HSGC awards go to women. This needs to be higher. 12

13 Workforce Development Distributed campus approach to workforce development. CC s provide technical Associate Degrees 4-yr provide depth in Bachelor s Degrees Present Status and Future Plan: Kauai: Small satellite communications and electronics fabrication, CubeSat development Maui: Space debris surveillance and removal NASA JSC interest CubeSats Hawaii: Software development for small satellites, test bed for HSFL lunar rovers Oahu: CanSat and IMUA development at HCC, WCC, Kauai CC, Kap CC (won national award for CanSat); satellite data reception at Kauai CC, HCC, and UH-Manoa; mission control at UH-Manoa, small sat development at UH- Manoa; flight software, range safety, launch support at UH-Hilo and PISCES. 13

14 Undergraduate Engagement HSFL Missions provide unique hands-on research experiences for hundreds of students. Planetary Exploration Technology Track Fall 2017 Planetary Exploration Technology (PET) certificate program to be offered from Fall Classes at level team-taught by the faculty of the Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP/SOEST). Current plan includes 11 distinct course offerings, with a mixture of basic science and technology/engineering focused classes designed to appeal to Earth Science and Engineering undergraduates with an interest in the science and technology of planetary exploration, as well as physicists, chemists, and biologists with an interest in applications for their science. Courses are strongly focused on teaching via hands-on research experience, in both the laboratory and the field, and using state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, by HIGP faculty who are worldleaders in the field (as reflected in the ~$10M pa in extramural funding HIGP receives). Mixture of laboratory classes, HI-focused classes, field-classes, and classroom instruction. Technology branch requires experienced engineering support. Propose 5 years for 3 0.5FTE engineering lecturers. The engineers currently work for HSFL. 14

15 Planetary Exploration Technology 1. History of solar system exploration (Existing course) Why (the science) and how (the engineering and technology) humans have explored our planetary neighborhood 2. Cosmochemistry (Existing course) What are the physical and chemical processes that formed the materials we now observe in our Solar System? 3. Hawai'i as a planetary analog (New Course) Many processes that shaped the surfaces of Mars, the Moon, Mercury, and Venus, can be observed right here, in Hawai'i 4. Planetary surfaces and atmospheres (Existing course) The physical and chemical processes that produce the surface geology and atmospheres of the planets 5. Planetary interiors (Existing course) What can high pressure mineral physics experiments, conducted at HIGP, tell us about planetary interiors? 6. Extraterrestrial materials analysis (New Course) HIGP has some of the best facilities in the world for analyzing extraterrestrial materials, such as meteorites, interplanetary dust particles and comet dust. Students will learn how our FEI Titan Transmission Electron Microscope and our Cameca ims 1280 ion microprobe are used to probe the origins of our Solar System 7. Remote sensing of planetary surfaces (Existing course) We send satellites with imaging cameras to orbit the planets. How do they work, and how do we analyze the data collected? 8. Instrumentation for planetary exploration (New Course) How do we design and build the instruments carried on board the satellites, landers, and rovers that we send into space? 9. Space mission design (New Course) A space mission seeks to answer a science question using instruments carried onboard a satellite, and launched into space on a rocket. What elements of design, engineering, management, and budget are important to designing a successful mission? 10. Space mission operations (New Course) Once the satellite is in orbit, or the rover is on the surface, how do we control it? How do we communicate with it? How does it communicate with us? How does it send our data back? How do we get the data to scientists? 11. Senior Capstone Mission (New Course) Interdisciplinary deep dive including science and technology students working on a mission concept. 15

16 Research: Instrumentation Space Ultra-Compact Hyper-Spectral Imaging (SUCHI) Fabry-Perot FTIR Uncooled 320x256 microbolometer array Sensitivity 20 mk or better at 30 Hz frame rates, F1.4 Approx. 220 m ground resolution from 500 km 7 wave channels between 7 and 14 μm General Purpose Imager Resolution 2448x2050 Sensor Size: 2/3 Monochrome and Color Frame rate: 15 fps Thermal Hyperspectral Imager Uncooled 320x256 microbolometer array Sagnac Interferometer Approx. 120 m data from an altitude of 500 km 40 spectral bands between 8 14 microns, with peak SNR of 1000:1 16

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18 Research: Mission Operations UTC :43:07 MOC 08:43: Sat # Satellite Name TinySat-1 TinySat-2 TinySat-3 TinySat-4 TinySat-5 TinySat-6 TinySat-7 TinySat-8 TikiSat-1 TikiSat-2 HawaiiSat-1 HawaiiSat-2 MightySat ClearSat KUD0Sat-1 KUD0Sat-2 BoxSat-1 BoxSat-2 BoxSat-3 BoxSat-4 BoxSat-6 BoxSat-9 BoxSat-10 BoxSat-11 SimSat-A MOST SpaceCadet 1 SpaceCadet 2 SpaceCadet 3 SpaceCadet 3 SpaceCadet 4 LocalT PERSONNEL CONTROL ALLOCATIONS C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P C S P Sim Sim C S P C S P C S P C S P GSC SpaceCadet 1 Manual SpaceCadet 2 SpaceCadet 3 Manual Controller Flight Director SpaceCadet 1 SpaceCadet 2 SpaceCadet 3 SpaceCadet 4 SpaceCadet 5 SpaceCadet 6 SpaceCadet 7 SpaceCadet 8 SpaceCadet 9 SpaceCadet 10 Trainee 1 Trainee 2 Trainee 3 Trainee 4 Status MPST MOST GSCT DMT On 1 On 1 1 On 1 On 2 1 Off Off Off Off Sim Off Off Sim 1 On 1 On 1 Off TBCT CEO 1 MET 1234:09:32:27 14:43:07 1 CEO COSMOS Executive Operator SORT SELECT 11 HawaiiSat-1 MOST 12 HawaiiSat-2 MOST 13 Orbit View Lat N Long E Alt 0123 k Ground St ASF-1 C B 45:03 Umbra 245:19:07:58 Nominal LVLH 22:10 AOS BoxSat MOST Sub-Sat View Lat S Long E Alt 0123 k Ground St ASF-1 B C 45:03 Umbra 245:19:07:58 Nominal LVLH 22:10 AOS #1 MC1 CPU Lat N Long E Alt 0489 k Ground St SSC #2 MC2 + L BoxSat-9 22 Lat N Long E Alt 0123 k Ground St SSC C L 26:58 245:02:07:58 Nominal IH2 08:15 LOS UHF, SBand EPS OBC ADC RF RCS + #4 OTB1 10% MEM DISK #5 OTB2 MOST Ground St KCC Lat S Long E Alt 0623 k 07:53 Umbra 245:07:07:58 Nominal LVLH 17:20 AOS Ground St KCC CONTACT CAR BoxSat-10 MOST 24 07:53 Umbra 245:07:07:58 Nominal LVLH 17:20 AOS CONTACT CAR MC5 MC6 #8 MC7 27:53 245:09:07:58 SAFE SAFE 37:20 AOS MC8 MC9 KUDOSat-2 Orbit View BoxSat-1 MOST 17 Orbit View MOST Lat N Long E Alt 5523 k Lat N Long E Alt 0123 k 82:53 Umbra 245:21:07:58 Ground St SCC 17:20 LOS VHF, SBand 82:53 Umbra 245:21:07:58 Ground St SCC 17:20 LOS VHF, SBand Ground St ASF-1 B C L SM GNC CM1 CM2 EPS OBC ADC COM TCS SimSat-1 Orbit View Lat S Long E Alt 1123 k Ground St KCC B 07:53 Umbra 245:07:07:58 Nominal LVLH 17:20 AOS C L RCS SM GNC CM1 CM2 EPS OBC ADC COM TCS MOST 26 Simulation SimSat-2 Orbit View EPS OBC ADC RF TCS + C L EPS OBC ADC RF TCS MOST 19 Lat N Long E Alt 0489 k Ground St SSC B + BoxSat-2 Sub-Sat View C L 26:58 245:02:07:58 Nominal IH2 08:15 LOS UHF, SBand EPS OBC ADC RF RCS + BoxSat-3 Sub-Sat View MOST Lat S Long E Alt 0557 k Ground St KCC 07:53 Umbra 245:07:07:58 Nominal LVLH 17:20 AOS CONTACT 20 MOST Lat S Long E Alt 0623 k Ground St KCC CAR EPS OBC ADC RF TCS + BoxSat-4 Sub-Sat View 27:53 245:09:07:58 SAFE SAFE 37:20 AOS LCK EPS OBC ADC RF TCS + MOST Simulation Lat S Long E Alt 0723 k Ground St KCC 07:53 Umbra 245:07:07:58 Nominal LVLH 17:20 AOS EPS OBC ADC RF TCS + KCC NODE #1 (MC1) B 45:03 Umbra 245:19:07:58 Nominal LVLH 22:10 AOS 18 CONTACT CONTACT LCK #10 MOST 16 Lat N Long E Alt 7623 k MOST 25 EPS OBC ADC RF TCS + #9 KUDOSat-1 Orbit View RCS BoxSat-11 Ground St KCC EPS OBC ADC RF TCS + #7 LCK Lat S Long E Alt 0123 k Lat S Long E Alt 0123 k #6 27:53 245:09:07:58 SAFE SAFE 37:20 AOS EPS OBC ADC RF TCS + Sub-Sat View Sub-Sat View MOST 15 Sub-Sat View EPS OBC ADC RF TCS + Ground St KCC ClearSat 14 Lat S Long E Alt 0557 k MOST 23 Orbit View #3 MC3 C 26:58 245:02:07:58 Nominal IH2 08:15 LOS UHF, SBand MightySat Orbit View EPS OBC ADC RF RCS + B L EPS OBC ADC RF TCS Sub-Sat View B L EPS OBC ADC RF TCS Orbit STATUS UHF CONTACT Ground St Band Local Tm Azimuth Sat # Elevation Max Elev AUTO AOS LOS Mode :07:07: :38:37 [+05:30] 19:47:27 [-04:20] KCC UHF ASF-1 S-B ASF-2 S-B SCC-1 UHF SCC-2 S-B OPER STBY OPER DOWN STBY ABC C-B LNK DEF-1 S-B DEF-2 S-B DEF-3 X-B STBY OPER OPER GHI-2 Ku-B OFF HMC3-1 HMC3-2 NMC3-1 NMC3-2 SMC3-1 UHF S-B S-B UHF UHF STBY OPER STBY STBY SMC3-2 BMC3-1 BMC3-2 WPGS S-B S-B UHF VHF OFF OPER OPER LNK ARC-4 S-B ARC-5 S-B OPER OPER STBY OPER ARC-2 UHF ARC-3 UHF OFF ARC-1 UHF DOWN MSG 18

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20 NASA Solicitations STMD NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Small Spacecraft Technology Program (SSTP) Space Technology Research Grants Technology Demonstration Missions (TDM) SMD ROSES A.41 Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) C.23 Planetary Science Deep Space SmallSat Studies D.13 Astrophysics Explorers MIDEX SMEX UNEX* MO * Not currently funded 20

21 HSFL Summary Mission Schedule August 2015: Project IMUA suborbital launch from NASA Wallops: successful launch of Pip November 2015: ORS-4 Mission, orbital launch from PMRF: unsuccessful launch of HiakaSat August 17, 2016: Project IMUA suborbital launch from NASA Wallops, multi-functional CC payload December 2016: 1 st Electron Orbital Launch from New Zealand. April 2017: HSFL student mission, suborbital launch of new on-board computer, scheduled from Spaceport America, New Mexico. June 2018: X-Bow orbital launch from PMRF March 2018: NEUTRON-1 launch: NASA CLI launch to 550km. Summary Points HSFL works towards vertically integrated small satellite ISR solutions for under $12M (including dedicated launch on RocketLab Electron). HSFL is building 3-U Cubesats and larger satellites capable of accommodating rideshare payloads. HSFL Integration and Test Facility is fully functional and staffed by a team that successfully delivered HiakaSat according to NASA and Air Force standards. HSFL offers mission support including ground station coverage and tailored mission operations solutions. 21

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