Abstract

NASA’s New Observing Strategies (NOS) thrust provides a framework for identifying technology advances needed to exploit newly available observational capabilities, including high-quality instruments on constellations of SmallSats and CubeSats, that enable measurement of phenomena that could not be studied using previously available techniques. Satellite developers and operators require software tools to simulate new technologies and validate new mission concepts that can incorporate a dynamic set of observing assets with various instruments located at different vantage points. These new mission concepts include many more design variables than traditional missions, requiring tools to facilitate trade analysis and concept validation in an iterative fashion, similar to an Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) framework. Several recent projects address design and operational trades by designing …

Date

August 1, 2021

Authors

Christopher D Ball, I Josue Tapia-Tamayo, Marco Paolieri, Andrew J O'Brien, Matthew French, Joel T Johnson, Paul Grogan

Conference

CubeSats and SmallSats for Remote Sensing V

Volume

11832

Pages

42-49

Publisher

SPIE