The United States National Space Policy provides guidance and directives for U.S. Government agencies to purchase commercial space services and capabilities to the maximum extent practical. In alignment with this guidance, the Agency has no plans to replenish the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) fleet operated by the Space Communication and Navigation Program (SCaN) and will instead pursue commercial services for communications with spacecraft in near-Earth orbit. The Communication Services Project (CSP) at GRC is leading this commercialization effort and in May 2022 it awarded six contracts to commercial SATCOM companies to demonstrate and validate commercial SATCOM capabilities for future NASA missions. The responses from the vendors indicated a strong interest in providing commercial services to NASA’s missions, and included a wide range of proposed architectures and demonstrations ideas. Overall, the responses indicated that a mature and healthy competitive environment exists with traditional satellite operators and constellation developers to provide NASA with commercial communication services in the next five years. This paper will present an overview of the proposed capability coverages, risk spread and US domestic market stimulation along with common themes and conclusions. The result of these demonstrations will serve as the basis for acquisition and provision of operational SATCOM services for NASA missions.


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    Titel :

    Framework for NASA Space Relay Satellite Services over the Next Decade: “Development and Demonstration of the Commercial Successors to TDRS “


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    27th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference (Ka) and the 39th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) ; 2022 ; Stresa, IT


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch