CHIRP Technology Demonstration Project

Levi, Alejandro; Halbach, LtCol Lawrence; Phillips, Maj Craig; Flores, Maj Randy; Murphy, Capt Dennis; Simonds, Joe; Belvill, Lt Jason

doi:10.2514/6.2010-8724

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“…The history and tradeoffs involved in committing to the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) have been previously described in the literature [1,2]. At payload shipment in July 2010, CHIRP was completing the testing of the payload.…”

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CHIRP Technology Demonstration Project

Levi¹,

Simonds²,

Gruber³

2011

AIAA SPACE 2011 Conference &Amp; Exposition

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Advancements in large format infrared (IR) focal plane technologies have created the opportunity for implementing Wide Field of View (WFOV) Overhead Persistent IR (OPIR) sensors for the missile surveillance mission. The Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload(CHIRP) is a capability-based risk-reduction pathfinder project whose purpose is to assess the risks and opportunities of designing, building and testing complex DoD experiments as secondary payloads on commercial spacecraft, within a predefined cost and schedule envelope. CHIRP will also demonstrate the ability to build and integrate components needed for a WFOV sensor, understand WFOV Staring IR phenomenology, and quantify performance levels of WFOV staring systems in a flight environment. This paper discusses some of the lessons learned, focusing on the period payload integration with spacecraft. Launch of CHIRP is currently scheduled to occur September 2011 with testing to begin in October 2011.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

CHIRP Technology Demonstration Project

Levi¹,

Simonds²,

Gruber³

2011

AIAA SPACE 2011 Conference &Amp; Exposition

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“…HE Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) flight demonstration [1][2][3][4] illustrated in Figure 1 is the first commercially-hosted Overhead Persistent InfraRed (OPIR) mission and the first commercially-hosted Air Force mission. To the author's knowledge, CHIRP is the first successful commercially-hosted remote-sensing mission, though not the first attempted as discussed in Section III.…”

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FD-CHIRP: First Commercially-Hosted OPIR Sensor

Schueler

2012

AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference &Amp; Exposition

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“…This approach meets a major recommendation from the USAF CHIRP program to achieve on-time delivery, which is to contract for hosting after the instrument has been built and is entering the testing phase. [7] There is a potential for difficulty, though, if the instrument is fully developed without a known spacecraft interface, incurring additional cost and schedule to retrofit the payload once a host is identified. For this reason, the authors had previously recommended contracting for hosting when the payload is at a Critical Design Review (CDR) level, but before it had been assembled.…”

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“…Tailoring the mission assurance and management requirements for a hosted payload project would serve to better align the expectations of the government and commercial partners, and may improve the likelihood of successful project execution. [7] Programmatic adjustments are necessary to successfully propose and implement a hosted payload mission at NASA. Instrument development and testing must be completed with sufficient time to allow integration with the host spacecraft before it launches.…”

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“…[2] Moreover, the technical and programmatic challenges have been overcome by government agencies on successful programs such as the Federal Aviation Administration's Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), the US Coast Guard's Automatic Identification System (AIS), the Department of Defense-sponsored Internet Routing In Space (IRIS), [3] and the US Air Force's (USAF) Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP). [4,5,6,7] These programs have provided valuable lessons for future hosted payload programs.…”

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The potential for hosted payloads at NASA

Andraschko

Antol

Baize

et al. 2012

2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference

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Abstract-The 2010 National Space Policy encourages federal agencies to "actively explore the use of inventive, nontraditional arrangements for acquiring commercial space goods and services to meet United States Government requirements, including...hosting government capabilities on commercial spacecraft". NASA's Science Mission Directorate has taken an important step towards this goal by adding an option for hosted payload responses to its recent Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for Earth Venture-2 missions. Since NASA selects a significant portion of its science missions through a competitive process, it is useful to understand the implications that this process has on the feasibility of successfully proposing a commercially hosted payload mission.This paper describes some of the impediments associated with proposing a hosted payload mission to NASA, and offers suggestions on how these impediments might be addressed.Commercially hosted payloads provide a novel way to serve the needs of the science and technology demonstration communities at a fraction of the cost of a traditional Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) mission. The commercial communications industry launches over 20 satellites to GEO each year. By exercising this repeatable commercial paradigm of privately financed access to space with proven vendors, NASA can achieve science goals at a significantly lower cost than the current dedicated spacecraft and launch vehicle approach affords. Commercial hosting could open up a new realm of opportunities for NASA science missions to make measurements from GEO. This paper also briefly describes two GEO missions recommended by the National Academies of Science Earth Science Decadal Survey, the Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) mission and the Precipitation and All-weather Temperature and Humidity (PATH) mission. Hosted payload missions recently selected for implementation by the Office of the Chief Technologist are also discussed.Finally, there are technical differences specific to hosted payloads and the GEO environment that must be considered when planning and developing a hosted payload mission. This paper addresses some of payload accommodation differences from the typical NASA LEO mission, including spacecraft interfaces, attitude control and knowledge, communications, data handling, mission operations, ground systems, and the thermal, radiation, and electromagnetic environment. The paper also discusses technical and programmatic differences such as limits to NASA's involvement with commercial quality assurance processes to conform to the commercial schedule and minimizing the price that makes hosted payloads an attractive option.

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CHIRP Technology Demonstration Project

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