TechSat21TESTBEDDATABASE.PDF

TechSat21 TESTBED DATABASE Item type text; Proceedings Authors Self, Lance Publisher International Foundation for Telemetering Journal International Telemetering Conference Proceedings Rights Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering Downloaded 15-May-2017 19:22:25 Link to item /10150/608294 TechSat21 TESTBED DATABASE Lance Self Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate Kirtland AFB, NM Lance.Self@ ABSTRACT TechSat21 is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate and the Air 1 Force Office of Scientific Research . Its mission is to control a cluster of satellites that, when combined, create a “virtual satellite” with which to conduct various experiments in sparse aperture sensing and formation flying. Customers of the TechSat21 database include mission planners and system engineers. Mission Planners need information that allows them to make high level planning and scheduling decisions. System Engineers need information to predict satellite sub-system problems and conduct satellite design and performance trade studies. This paper describes those users and the project database. KEYWORDS TechSat21, object-relational. INTRODUCTION The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is funding significant research into such related areas as satellite formation flying