Leveraging Commercial Space for Earth and Ocean Remote Sensing (2022) / Chapter Skim
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The study will provide an independent assessment of the feasibility and implications of creating and exploiting partnerships for developing, deploying, and operating a system of satellites and supporting infrastructure capable of sensing ocean, coastal, atmospheric, and hydrologic data of sufficient scientific quality to enable prediction models and to support near-real-time applications of national interest. It will identify and describe, to the extent possible, promising options for such a system.
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In particular, the sponsor was less interested in a prescriptive solution and more interested in a broad framework for creating a sustainable "space ecosystem" capable of solving the near-term sponsor technology demonstration objectives in combination with longer-term development of capabilities to serve naval strategic and tactical objectives at both rapid temporal and large spatial scales. It became clear at the first meeting that the sponsor's interests were broader than ocean science in that a space ecosystem, if appropriately conceived, was capable of serving a broad science user base that could be extended to other government agencies as well as interested external users.
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• ExecutiveGov (8/20) reported that NASA "plans to partner with commercial companies for the develop ment of future space-based facilities as the International Space Station nears the end of service life." NASA Director of Commercial Spaceflight Phil McAlister said the collaboration with commercial com panies would allow NASA to focus more on deep space exploration.
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The committee's first goal was to provide enduring value by identifying and focusing on which government mission areas could most utilize and benefit from commercial New Space capabilities for space access. Its second goal was to determine current challenges and future opportunities for redefining space infrastructure with the goal of becoming more amenable to sustainable partnerships or other acquisition methods capable of serving multiple stakeholders.
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government has been the controlling historical player in the national space ecosystem, through the development, launch, and integrated operation of large, complex, and highly capable mission-specific satellites. Aside from certain types of commercial communication satellites, spacecraft of this type have generally been low volume one-of-a-kind systems built by a specialized highly skilled workforce, making them expensive and time consuming to craft compared to systems designed and built using commercial assembly-line processes.
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For example, remote sensing satellites are employed to provide timely warning about enemy missile launches, to monitor compliance with arms control treaties, to detect potentially hostile troop movements, and to assess the effect of combat damage on a particular facility or location. Secure communication satellite technology creates rapid, secure links between headquarters and fielded forces, and among combat units maneuvering rapidly on a remote battlefield.
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The traditional and New Space communities will co-exist with nontraditional users and, in many cases will benefit from the available data. This report will discuss the expanded ecosystem that will grow out of this hybrid strategy and provide useful guidance on how to leverage the burgeoning commercial space capabilities through a broad array of business models and acquisition strategies to produce high-quality scientific data products.
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