This study examines the performance characteristics and life-cycle costs of possible design choices for the Space Radar system. The Air Force and its partners have not yet decided on the final design of the satellites or the final architecture of the constellation. For the purposes of this analysis, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) developed four alternative Space Radar architectures that could meet the systems principal mission objectives. Those architectures were based on unclassified published studies and were designed to be technologically feasible (albeit challenging) in 2015, the anticipated year of the first launch. The alternatives incorporate two notional radar designs and various constellation sizes. The primaryor referencearchitecture consists of nine satellites, each with a 40-square-meter radar array. The other options differ from that architecture by having either more (21) or fewer (5) satellites or larger radars (100-square-meter arrays on nine satellites).


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    Title :

    Alternatives for Military Space Radar


    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    89 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English