Targeted and comprehensive space-environment sensors: description and recommendations

Reeves, Geoffrey ; O' ; Brien, Paul ; Mazur, Joe ; Ginet, Gregory

Los Alamos National Laboratory

关键词: Recommendations;    Architecture;    National Security;    45 Military Technology, Weaponry, And National Defense;   

DOI  :  10.2172/948578
RP-ID  :  LA-14381
RP-ID  :  DE-AC52-06NA25396
RP-ID  :  948578

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

We discuss the roles of the two classes of space-environment sensors on operational space systems: (1) Targeted sensors capable of measuring the environment and effects at a level sufficient for providing situational awareness for the host spacecraft and (2) Comprehensive sensors capable of providing detailed environment measurements that can be mapped to a broad region of near-Earth space, providing global situational awareness and quantitative characterization of the environment. Our purpose is to show the usefulness of a heterogeneous architecture with both classes of sensors for the near-term and long-term needs of National Security Space