Real Time Monitoring of Natural and Enhanced Space Environments

Sensing Strategies proposes to build space qualified hardware that implements the design architecture developed under the Phase I effort. The design emphasizes detection and characterization of transient events (optical and non-optical) that may impact satellites carrying out critical MDA missions. Our design uses a multi-channel spectral classification approach with custom amplification and sampling circuitry and the architecture was validated with a prototype fanricated under the Phase I effort. The design can be fabricated in a small form factor and is expected to be implemented in a nanosat demonstration. SSI will deliver the space qualified hardware for nanosat integration under the Phase II effort.