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ASTWG Kick-off Meeting

ASTWG Kick-off Meeting. May 15, 2001 John F. Kennedy Space Center. Introduction. The Advanced Range Technology Working Group (ARTWG) Companion to the ASTWG that is focused on the Range aspects of Spaceport technologies

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ASTWG Kick-off Meeting

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  1. ASTWG Kick-off Meeting May 15, 2001 John F. Kennedy Space Center

  2. Introduction • The Advanced Range Technology Working Group (ARTWG) • Companion to the ASTWG that is focused on the Range aspects of Spaceport technologies • Established as the means to implement the intent of the OSTP Recommendation 6: “ The Air Force and NASA should develop a plan to examine, explore, and proceed with next-generation range technology development and demonstration, with a focused charter to improve safety, increase flexibility and capacity, and lower costs for reusable and expendable launch vehicles. NASA should designate KSC as a National Center for next-generation RLV range technology development and demonstration, while the U.S. Air Force remains the overarching authority for Eastern and Western Range architecture.” • Co-Chaired by NASA and the Air Force

  3. Goals • The ARTWG will: • Focus on Range technologies of the future • Identify stakeholders and provide a continuing working forum to exchange information on ART development • Understand stakeholders programs, goals, objectives, and requirements • Determine technology focus areas and their associated functions • Develop focus area roadmaps • Facilitate the identification, development, and demonstration of technologies to perform the functions outlined in the roadmaps • Identify resource leveraging opportunities • Become the main source of ART information Note: The ARTWG is not a funding source!

  4. Mission • The ARTWG Mission is to: • Develop synergistic partnership with NASA, USAF, other federal and state government organizations, industry, and academia to address the technology concerns of all range stakeholders • Develop a strategic plan for Advanced Range Technology development to support the future needs of all stakeholders • Facilitate opportunities for the development of ground-breaking technologies that execute range functions with increased safety and efficiency and also provide greater flexibility and availability • Facilitate the development of technologies that are applicable to various programs and that can be distributed to multiple ranges and spaceports • Facilitate the development of technology transfer strategies

  5. Vision • Create a common vision of the Range of the Future: • Facilitates simultaneous launch and landing activities from multiple ranges and spaceports located world-wide • Seamless interface with National Air Space for launch and landing • Autonomous operations • Minimum (if any) reconfiguration for launch and landing of various vehicle architectures • Increased flexibility and availability for launch and landing - enabling quick turn-around processing • Multiple customers and operators

  6. Stakeholders The ARTWG creates an environment for sharing information, understanding stakeholder issues and concerns, and providing a synergistic approach to Advanced Range Technology Development. NASA Centers/Facilities Federal Govt, FAA USAF SC/SMC/AFRL Advanced Range Technology Working Group Advisory Boards/Committees Range Executive Council TBD State Govt. Academia Industry

  7. Status • ARTWG Kick-off held at KSC on March 1, 2001 • Over 100 stakeholders • Presentation by various Government agencies, departments and programs concerning their needs for or involvement in range technologies • Presentations for the next meeting will focus on state, commercial and academia • Very favorable responses to request for feedback and suggestions • Next ARTWG to be held • Early September @ KSC

  8. Richard A. Nelson NASA Kennedy Space Center Ph: (321)867-3332 Fax: (321)867-8394 Email: richard.nelson-2@ksc.nasa.gov Contact Information Lt. Col. Blaise Kordell USAF/SAF/SXP Ph: (703)614-5368 Fax: (703)614-3998 Email: blaise.kordell@pentagon.af.mil Website:http://advrangeTech.ksc.nasa.gov Select:Working Group Meeting, March 1, 2001, KSC

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  10. Advanced Range Technology Development within NASA Goals • Develop technologies that support the goals of the future generations of Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLV) - enabling greater access to and from space • Develop technologies that will increase the safety and efficiency of operations and performance, thereby decreasing the cost of access to space • Transfer knowledge of range technologies so that they are available to existing and future ranges and spaceports Five (5) Technology Focus Areas • Weather Instrumentation & Systems • Space Based Range • Ground Based Range Systems • Decision Models & Simulations • Range Information Systems Management

  11. Advanced Range Technology Focus Areas within NASA Weather Instrumentation & Systems • Develop and apply new technologies to weather instrumentation and systems to: • Safely reduce conservatism • Provide timely warnings for personnel and asset safety • Provide decision models with timely data Space Based Range • Provide integrated Range/Spaceport space based weather, communications, tracking and surveillance assets that may consist of: • A specific satellite platform with these capabilities, or, • A constellation of individual satellites that fulfill these capabilities

  12. Advanced Range Technology Focus Areas within NASA Ground Based Range Systems • Provide an integrated and automated capability that will make re-configuration of range systems for various launch vehicles, timely and efficient. • Provide ground based assets for ranges and spaceports to meet the requirements: • that can not be satisfied by the Space Based Range capabilities • necessary to provide communications between ranges, spaceports, and Space Based Range assets

  13. Advanced Range Technology Focus Areas within NASA Decision Models & Simulation • Develop technologies that can reduce conservatism, while providing the fidelity necessary to ensure safe and cost effective hazard forecasting. • Day of launch • Hazardous operations • Personnel safety • Develop simulations that support decision model validation and personnel training Spaceport Information Systems Management • Space and ground based range systems will require an architecture that: • provides for the sharing of range information • supports distributed processing • provides support for simultaneous ground and flight operations for various vehicle architectures to and from multiple ranges and spaceports

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