ASTWG Kick-off Meeting

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ASTWG Kick-off Meeting

• May 15, 2001
• John F. Kennedy Space Center

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Introduction

• The Advanced Range Technology Working Group
  (ARTWG)
• Companion to the ASTWG that is focused on the
  Range aspects of Spaceport technologies
• Established as the means to implement the intent
  of the OSTP Recommendation 6
• The Air Force and NASA should develop a plan
  to examine, explore, and proceed with
  next-generation range technology development and
  demonstration, with a focused charter to improve
  safety, increase flexibility and capacity, and
  lower costs for reusable and expendable launch
  vehicles. NASA should designate KSC as a
  National Center for next-generation RLV range
  technology development and demonstration, while
  the U.S. Air Force remains the overarching
  authority for Eastern and Western Range
  architecture.
• Co-Chaired by NASA and the Air Force

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Goals

• The ARTWG will
• Focus on Range technologies of the future
• Identify stakeholders and provide a continuing
  working forum to exchange information on ART
  development
• Understand stakeholders programs, goals,
  objectives, and requirements
• Determine technology focus areas and their
  associated functions
• Develop focus area roadmaps
• Facilitate the identification, development, and
  demonstration of technologies to perform the
  functions outlined in the roadmaps
• Identify resource leveraging opportunities
• Become the main source of ART information
• Note The ARTWG is not a funding source!

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Mission

• The ARTWG Mission is to
• Develop synergistic partnership with NASA, USAF,
  other federal and state government organizations,
  industry, and academia to address the technology
  concerns of all range stakeholders
• Develop a strategic plan for Advanced Range
  Technology development to support the future
  needs of all stakeholders
• Facilitate opportunities for the development of
  ground-breaking technologies that execute range
  functions with increased safety and efficiency
  and also provide greater flexibility and
  availability
• Facilitate the development of technologies that
  are applicable to various programs and that can
  be distributed to multiple ranges and spaceports
• Facilitate the development of technology transfer
  strategies

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Vision

• Create a common vision of the Range of the
  Future
• Facilitates simultaneous launch and landing
  activities from multiple ranges and spaceports
  located world-wide
• Seamless interface with National Air Space for
  launch and landing
• Autonomous operations
• Minimum (if any) reconfiguration for launch and
  landing of various vehicle architectures
• Increased flexibility and availability for launch
  and landing - enabling quick turn-around
  processing
• Multiple customers and operators

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Stakeholders
The ARTWG creates an environment for sharing
information, understanding stakeholder issues and
concerns, and providing a synergistic approach to
Advanced Range Technology Development.
 
NASA Centers/Facilities  
USAF SC/SMC/AFRL
Federal Govt, FAA
    Advanced Range Technology Working Group
  Advisory Boards/Committees
  Range Executive Council TBD
State Govt.
  Academia
  Industry  
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Status

• ARTWG Kick-off held at KSC on March 1, 2001
• Over 100 stakeholders
• Presentation by various Government agencies,
  departments and programs concerning their needs
  for or involvement in range technologies
• Presentations for the next meeting will focus on
  state, commercial and academia
• Very favorable responses to request for feedback
  and suggestions
• Next ARTWG to be held
• Early September _at_ KSC

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Contact Information

• Richard A. Nelson
• NASA Kennedy Space Center
• Ph [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email richard.nelson-2_at_ksc.nasa.gov

Lt. Col. Blaise Kordell USAF/SAF/SXP Ph (703)614
-5368 Fax [phone] Email blaise.kordell_at_pen
tagon.af.mil
Website http//advrangeTech.ksc.nasa.gov Select
Working Group Meeting, March 1, 2001, KSC
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Back-up charts
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Advanced Range Technology Development within NASA

• Goals
• Develop technologies that support the goals of
  the future generations of Reusable Launch
  Vehicles (RLV) - enabling greater access to and
  from space
• Develop technologies that will increase the
  safety and efficiency of operations and
  performance, thereby decreasing the cost of
  access to space
• Transfer knowledge of range technologies so that
  they are available to existing and future ranges
  and spaceports
• Five (5) Technology Focus Areas
• Weather Instrumentation Systems
• Space Based Range
• Ground Based Range Systems
• Decision Models Simulations
• Range Information Systems Management

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Advanced Range Technology Focus Areas within NASA

• Weather Instrumentation Systems
• Develop and apply new technologies to weather
  instrumentation and systems to
• Safely reduce conservatism
• Provide timely warnings for personnel and asset
  safety
• Provide decision models with timely data
• Space Based Range
• Provide integrated Range/Spaceport space based
  weather, communications, tracking and
  surveillance assets that may consist of
• A specific satellite platform with these
  capabilities, or,
• A constellation of individual satellites that
  fulfill these capabilities

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Advanced Range Technology Focus Areas within NASA

• Ground Based Range Systems
• Provide an integrated and automated capability
  that will make re-configuration of range systems
  for various launch vehicles, timely and
  efficient.
• Provide ground based assets for ranges and
  spaceports to meet the requirements
• that can not be satisfied by the Space Based
  Range capabilities
• necessary to provide communications between
  ranges, spaceports, and Space Based Range assets
  

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Advanced Range Technology Focus Areas within NASA

• Decision Models Simulation
• Develop technologies that can reduce
  conservatism, while providing the fidelity
  necessary to ensure safe and cost effective
  hazard forecasting.
• Day of launch
• Hazardous operations
• Personnel safety
• Develop simulations that support decision model
  validation and personnel training
• Spaceport Information Systems Management
• Space and ground based range systems will require
  an architecture that
• provides for the sharing of range information
• supports distributed processing
• provides support for simultaneous ground and
  flight operations for various vehicle
  architectures to and from multiple ranges and
  spaceports