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ASTEC Advanced
Space Technologies and Emerging Concepts
A study to determine the feasibility issues and costs associated with
the development and manufacturing of 100 servicing satellites.
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BEPoP Brilliant
Eyes Proof of Principle
Designed, built, and calibrated by SDL, the BEPoP sensor incorporates
an imaging radiometer with three focal planes for collecting measurements
at visible, LWIR,
and VLWIR
wavelengths.
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Bowshock I and II
Funded by MDA to provide the predictive capability to design and deploy
effective sensor systems for target acquisition and tracking in future
atmospheric interceptor systems.
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CIRRIS IA
Cryogenic Infrared Radiance Instrumentation for Shuttle
This SDL-developed infrared telescope contained a high resolution Michelson
interferometer-spectrometer and a dual channel radiometer.
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CODA Coupling
of Dynamics and Aurora
Successfully launched 21 February 2002, CODA was designed to study the
thin upper atmospheric region that is too high for airplanes and balloons
but too low for satellites.
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DEBI Dual-mode
Experiment on Bowshock Interactions.
DEBI launched successfully on 10 June 2003. The data captured by DEBI
will be used to further research on UV
and IR bowshock interactions.
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DITP Discriminating
Interceptor Technology Program
SDL supported DITP with flight cryostat assembly and housekeeping and
control electronics.
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Eddy
Launched in 1998, SDL designed, built and calibrated Eddy to study invisible
turbulence using variety of sensors.
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E-Winds
E-Winds, a NASA-funded program to measure the time history of the nighttime
E-region neutral winds, successfully launched 30 June 2003.
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EXCEDE III
Excitation via Controlled Energy Deposition Experiment
Designed by SDL to determine reactions and measure infrared radiance
produced in the upper atmosphere by controlled dosing.
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FAISAT
SDL delivered a hardware in-the-loop emulator for the attitude determination
and control system and provided instrumentation, fabrication, integration
and testing for FAISAT 1 and 2.
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FIRST Far-Infrared
Spectroscopy of the Troposphere
FIRST is a long wave imaging interferometer that will measure between
10-100 microns, filling a gap in the existing system that monitors the
Earth’s climate.
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FISTA Flying
Infrared Signatures Technology Aircraft
FISTA is an NKC-135A specially modified to fly infrared sensors and collect
data during flight.
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FISTA II Flying
Infrared Signatures Technology Aircraft
A follow-on to SDL’s work on infrared signatures, FISTA II focuses on
missile and rocket plume signatures for MDA.
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GEMS Gas
Exchange Measurement System
GEMS is designed to measure the respiration of plants that are being
grown in a small greenhouse on the Russian Mir Space Station. The 25-year
experiment demonstrated that serial plant propagation in space is possible.
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HIP Hyperspectral
Imaging Polarimeter
The pathfinder sensor investigates the infrared characteristics of sun-glint
from high altitude clouds in order to research techniques to reduce the
high incidence of false missile-launch indications from US early-warning
satellites.
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IBSS Infrared
Background Signature Survey
The IBSS sensor consisted of a high-off-axis rejection telescope, a spatial
radiometer, and an Ebert-Fastie grating spectrometer.
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ICON Ice Content
and Odd-Oxygen in Noctilucent Clouds
ICON is a NASA-sponsored program to determine the clouds' composition
by measuring their IR and UV radiation and absorption characteristics.
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JWST Heat Switch
James Webb Space Telescope
SDL designed and demonstrated an advanced thermal switch for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
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Mars Balloon
Working with JPL
in designing, fabricating, integrating and flying prototype Mars balloons,
SDL's deliverables included balloon storage and deployment containers,
pyrotechnic systems, and a large number of control gondolas.
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METEORS MEsosphere-Thermosphere
Emissions for Ozone Remote Sensing
A NASA/LaRC sounding rocket program, the main instruments provided by
SDL included a 9.6 µm CVF
spectrometer, a 2-channel near-IR
WIRR, and
an atomic oxygen resonance-fluorescence/absorption experiment.
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MSTI-3 Miniature
Sensor Technology Integration
SDL conducted spatial and radiometric calibrations on the sensor and
used interferometric techniques to characterize the sensor spectral response
down to 1x10-7 of the in-band transmission.
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NAVIS Navy
Input Station
A state-of-the-art, real-time reconnaissance imagery receiver and display
system.
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NSN Naval
Research Laboratory Sensor Node
NSN is designed to provide distributed screening of real-time, near real-time,
and archived data from the latest electro-optical, infrared, multi-spectral,
and radar sensors.
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OCO Orbiting
Carbon Observatory
As a subcontractor for Hamilton Sundstrand Sensor Systems, SDL is developing
the cryogenic subsystem for the OCO instrument.
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ProSEDS Propulsive
Small Expendable Deployer System
A tether-based propulsion experiment that dissipates power to the space
environment around the Earth, allowing the transfer of spacecraft orbital
kinetic energy to heat.
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RAMOS Russian
American Observational Satellites
An international cooperative program with the Russian Federation, RAMOS
is a two-satellite constellation that will operate in approximately the
same plane and altitude of around 500 kilometers.
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SAL Sporadic
Atom Layers
SAL's mission was to investigate the phenomenon of sporadic sodium layers
(NaS), thin (1 km) layers of neutral atomic metal which form in the Earth's
mesosphere at altitudes near 95 km.
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SBIRS High
Space Based Infrared System
SBIRS High is a two-tier remote sensing satellite system that will work
with other US defense systems to provide global below- and above-the-horizon
detection as well as tracking and discrimination of missiles in their
boost, post-boost, midcourse and reentry phases of flight.
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SBIRS Low
Space Based Infrared System
SBIRS Low will be part of the next generation early warning system, providing
missile warning, missile defense, battlespace characterization, and technical
intelligence.
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Skipper
An international program funded by MDA
to produce an atmospheric research satellite.
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SPAS III
SPAS III was to be a telescoped, infrared imager featuring two complex
focal plane arrays, a 256 x 256 InSb detector operating in the SWIR and
MWIR, and a 128 x 128 HgCdTe detector operating in the LWIR.
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SPEAR III
Space Power Experiments Aboard Rockets
The mission investigated different methods of grounding spacecraft to
LEO plasma and obtained
quantitative data on different charging effects observed on spacecraft
in LEO.
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SPIRIT III
Spatial Infrared Imaging Telescope
SPIRIT III is a long-wave infrared instrumentation package primarily
consisting of a high spatial resolution radiometer, a high spectral resolution
interferometer-spectrometer, and an extremely high-off-axis-rejection
telescope.
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TARPS-CD
Tactical Air-borne Reconnaissance Pod System - Completely Digital
SDL integrated digital imagery with real-time digital recording, data
link transmission and display to provide the capabilities for processing,
displaying, and manipulating tactical reconnaissance imagery received
in real-time from CDL
or from tape.
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TIS-SPE Tactical
Input Segment Screener Processor Element
SDL developed the hardware and software for the SPE portion of the TIS, a ground station designed to receive, process, and screen tactical imagery.
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Viper Dart
An initiative to develop a small inexpensive suborbital payload that
can be used to probe the Earth's upper atmosphere.
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WIRE Wide-field
Infrared Explorer
WIRE is a solid-hydrogen cooled imaging telescope designed for the major
measurement goal of studying starburst galaxy evolution.
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