SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Testbed Environment for Space Situational Awareness
- Notice Date
- 6/22/2011
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 238990
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- Contracting Office
- Department of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (DOE Contractor), Industrial Partnerships & Commercialization, 7000 East Avenue, L-795, Livermore, California, 94550
- ZIP Code
- 94550
- Solicitation Number
- FBO238-11
- Archive Date
- 9/24/2011
- Point of Contact
- Connie L Pitcock, Phone: 925-422-1072
- E-Mail Address
-
pitcock1@llnl.gov
(pitcock1@llnl.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Testbed Environment for Space Situational Awareness Opportunity : Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), operated by the Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), LLC under contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is offering the opportunity to collaborate on research in the area of development of algorithms and software tools for space situational awareness (SSA). Background : Hundreds of satellites and tens of thousands of pieces of space junk-inactive satellites, parts of booster rockets, and lost astronaut tools, for example-are currently known to be in orbit around our planet, and the true number could be ten times that. Recent collisions between orbiting objects, such as the February 2009 collision between a defunct Russian satellite and an American communications satellite near the North Pole, underscore a serious problem: how do we track and predict the locations of everything up there, and when does it pose a threat? Description : LLNL is developing the Testbed Environment for Space Situational Awareness (TESSA). TESSA is a parallelized discrete event simulation for large-scale modeling and simulation of space events in a high performance computing environment. TESSA is a set of analysis, modeling, and visualization tools environment that simulates the positions of objects in orbit and the detection of them by telescopes and radar systems. TESSA simulates the determination of orbital parameters from sensor observations. These orbits are then processed in a fast-running conjunction analysis routine to predict future close encounters with other orbiting objects. The results of TESSA simulations are visualized in a scalable graphical environment that runs on workstation-class computers. TESSA contains modules for specific capabilities including orbital propagation, orbit determination, radar and optical sensor modeling, conjunction analysis, collision probability, collision debris generation, and uncorrelated track processing. Advantages : TESSA models are physics-based and thus can be extrapolated beyond existing sensors and configurations. TESSA has a scalable architecture and can model large and complex simulations. Potential Applications : TESSA can be used to model the performance of existing sensor networks and explore the value of new sensors, new processing algorithms, and new CONOPS. Feature Benefit Physics based modeling of optical and radar sensors including ground-based and space-based platforms Can be applied to new or proposed sensors where empirical performance data is lacking Discrete event simulation architecture Model runs with without pre-established time steps allowing for more efficient computations where phenomenology spans large time scales Scalable visualization Visualize scenes with hundreds of thousands of orbiting objects Accurate representative debris shapes and state vectors Debris can be propagated for evaluation of potential collision risk with other space objects Development Status : TESSA models have been demonstrated for diverse SSA problems such as satellite collision risk prediction, launch chain of custody processing, and novel satellite sensor cataloguing efficiency evaluation. A patent application has been filed to protect the invention. LLNL is seeking industry partners with a demonstrated ability to bring such inventions to the market. Moving critical technology beyond the Laboratory to the commercial world helps our licensees gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. All licensing activities are conducted under policies relating to the strict nondisclosure of company proprietary information. Please visit the IPO website at http://ipo.llnl.gov/workwithus/partneringprocess.php for more information on working with LLNL and the industrial partnering and technology transfer process. Note: THIS IS NOT A PROCUREMENT. Companies interested in commercializing LLNL's Testbed Environment for Space Situational Awareness should provide a written statement of interest, which includes the following: 1. Company Name and address. 2. The name, address, and telephone number of a point of contact.
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