| CDC Teams |
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| Team | Responsibilities | Design Disciplines |
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Space Segment
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•Payload and spacecraft subsystem design
•Top-level ground segment and software sizing
•Parametric cost and performance estimation
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Astrodynamics, payload, command and data handling, communications, attitude determination and control, electrical power, propulsion, structure, thermal, ground, software, cost, configuration |
System Architecture
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•Constellation design and coverage analysis
•Vehicle size and launch manifest determination
•Concept of operations and ground segment architecture
•Analysis of relative cost vs. requirements
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Constellation, payload, spacecraft, availability, ground, cost, utility |
Kinetic Energy Weapons
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•Payload and spacecraft subsystem design/analysis
•Constellation and endgame performance estimation
•Parametric system cost analysis
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Configuration, sensor, ordnance, guidance, power, propulsion, structure, ground,
carrier vehicle, cost |
Space Maneuver Vehicle
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•Flexible, fast response, reusable launch vehicle (requires boost vehicle) On-orbit payload support
•subsystem design and cost analysis
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Command and data
handling, communications, attitude determination and control, electrical power system, propulsion, thermal, ground, software, vehicle configuration, cost |
Ground Systems
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•Estimation of facilities, personnel, processing, communications, and software
•Determination of information, functional, and communication architecture trades
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Information architecture, communications
architecture, software, processing, staffing,
facilities, spacecraft, cost |
Communications Payload
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•Detailed communications payload subsystem design and trades
•Top-level spacecraft estimation
•Performance, hardware configuration, and cost estimation
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Link analysis, radio-frequency units, modulation analysis, orbital analysis, digital, coding, laser, spacecraft |