| Title: | Tactical Satellite 3: Requirements Development for Responsive Space Missions |
| Alternative Title: | Tacsat-3 Mission Results and Lessons Learned |
| Author: | Straight, Stanley D. ; Davis, Thomas M. |
| Abstract: | The Department of Defense is embarking on a broad initiative to make its space programs more responsive. There are many different views of responsive space, but common tenets include no cost and schedule growth within space programs, and space capabilities delivered directly to the operational and tactical warfighter within a theater of war. The Tactical Satellite 3 (TacSat-3) mission success criteria are unique integration of program management objectives of cost and schedule and technical objectives. TacSat-3 will demonstrate a Hyperspectral Imaging capability direct to the tactical warfighter within 10 minutes of a collection opportunity. Central to providing this capability direct to the warfighter is fielding it in a responsive manner. Responsiveness demands a program structure and system design where cost and schedule are primary over mission performance to some minimum level. To be successful, the TacSat-3 program has developed requirements and mission success criteria which intimately link the cost and schedule to all aspects of requirements. The fundamental basis is the development of mission success criteria which are measurable, but allow for sufficient flexibility to meet aggressive cost and schedule constraints. Several examples of requirements trades are given. |
| Description: | This conference features the work of authors from: Georgia Tech’s Space Systems Design Lab, Aerospace Systems Design Lab, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Langley Research Center; and other aerospace industry and academic institutions |
| Type: | Presentation |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/8035 |
| Date: | 2005-11-10 |
| Contributor: |
Air Force Research Laboratory (Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio). Space Vehicles Directorate
Georgia Institute of Technology. Space Systems Design Lab |
| Relation: | SSEC05. Session D;GT-SSEC.D.4 |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
Tactical Satellite 3
Responsive mission requirements Space capability in theater of war Integration of program management objectives Aggressive cost and schedule constraints Hyperspectral imaging capability Requirements trades TacSat-3 |
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