Distributed Satellite Resource Management for Mission Operations

AFRL has performed basic research in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) for many years. With the successful execution of multiple programs during the past few years, AFRL has become the de facto center of mass in the SSA development community. As the technologies continue to advance, SSA becomes a critical factor in responding to space threats. The ISS Team proposes to continue development of these net-centric technologies in order to aid in AFRL’s ongoing efforts to provide net-centric resource management to the Space Surveillance Network (SSN). The Continuous Anomalous Orbital Situational Discriminator (CAOS-D) system being proposed by the ISS Team will aid the SSN in optimizing sensor collection tasking. CAOS-D will address the new SSN sensors coming by being able to operate in an online mode by making use of streaming catalog updates. CAOS-D will then provide a set of satellites it recommends be closely monitored because of their involvement in possible conjunction or proximity events. BENEFIT: CAOS-D will provide an extensible online platform for performing conjunction and proximity analysis in a net-centric environment that will be compatible with forthcoming Joint Space Operations Center Mission System (JMS) SOA architecture. CAOS-D will move operators away from the manual/batch-run conjunction analysis process and towards a system that provides a more accurate and up to date space picture. Furthermore, with the new streaming sensors being brought online, CAOS-D will stand ready to consume the new cadence of data. Commercial applications of CAOS-D include currently envisioned SSA and DCS systems such as JMS.