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SCaN

Badri Younes Deputy Associate Administrator

NASA Space Communications and Navigation August 2018 www.nasa.gov

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Develop technologies to enable and enhance future mission experience

Enabling Human Space Exploration and Science Missions

Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN)

Serves as the Program Office for all of

NASA’s space communications activities

100+ Missions currently

Supported by SCaN

24/7 Global Near Earth and Deep Space

Communications and Navigation Services

Develop space communication standards as well as positioning, navigation, and timing policies

Represent and negotiate on behalf of NASA on all matters related to space communications

Manage NASA spectrum; represent

NASA

on national and international spectrum management forums

Develop, operate and manage all

NASA space communications capabilities

SCaN Assets Spanning the Globe

•F11•F12

• SN

Tracking and Data Relay

Satellites (TDRS)

•F6 •F9• F13 •F7 •F10•F8

• NEN Station

Wallops Island, Virgina

• NEN PDL/KUS

Launch Range, Florida

• GDSCC

Goldstone, California

• NEN KSAT Station

Norway

• NEN Station

Hartebeesthoek, Africa

• NEN Station

McMurdo, Antarctica

• SN

Guam Remote Ground Terminal

• SN White Sands

Complex, New Mexico

• NEN Station

White Sands, New Mexico

• MDSCC

Madrid, Spain

• CDSCC

Canberra, Australia

• NEN Stations

- ASF, Alaska

- NOAA, Alaska

• NEN KSAT Station

Norway

• NEN Station, SSC

Hartebeesthoek, Africa

• NEN KSAT Station

Singapore

• NEN Station

SSC,

Dongara Australia

• NEN KSAT Station

TrolSat, Antarctica

• NEN Station

SSC, Hawaii

• NEN Station, SSC

Kiruna, Sweden

• NEN Station, SSC

North Pole, Alaska

• New Partnership

Sardinia, Italy

• GDSCC Goldstone, California

• DAEP Ka-band

Upgrade

• NEN Ka-band Upgrade

• Punta Arenas, Chile

• MDSCC

Madrid, Spain

• DAEP Ka-band

Upgrade

• NEN Ka-band Upgrade

Svalbard, Norway, KSAT

• CDSCC

Canberra, Australia

• DAEP Ka-band

Upgrade

• NEN Upgrade

2 NASA Ka-band

• Alaska Satellite

Facility

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite Evolution

First Generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS)

Second Generation TDRS

Third Generation TDRS

Launched

Jan 2013

Launched

Jan 2014

Launched

Aug 2017

Atlas V Atlas V Atlas V

STS-70

Launched

Apr 1983

STS-26RSTS-51LSTS - 6 STS-29R STS-54

Failed

Jan 1986

Launched

Sep 1988

Launched

Mar 1989

Launched

Aug 1991

Launched

Jan 1993

Launched

Jul 1995

STS-43

TDRS-C (3)

▪ Disposal 2010 ▪ Failed to achieve orbit

▪ Disposal 2012

▪ Super-Sync

▪ Storage

TDRS-E (5) TDRS-F (6) TDRS-G (7)

▪ Storage ▪ Active ▪ Active

TDRS-B TDRS-D (4)TDRS-A (1)

▪ Indian

Ocean

Region

▪ Pacific

Ocean

Region

▪ Atlantic

Ocean

Region

▪ Super

Sync

▪ Atlantic

Ocean

Region

TDRS-H (8)

Ka-band

TDRS-I (9)

Ka-band

TDRS-J (10)

Ka-band

▪ Active

▪ Indian

Ocean

Region

▪ Active

▪ Atlantic

Ocean

Region

▪ Pacific

Ocean

Region

▪ Active

Launched

Jun 2000

Launched

Mar 2002

Launched

Dec 2002

Atlas IIA Atlas IIA Atlas IIA

TDRS-K (11)

Ka-band

TDRS-L (12)

Ka-band

▪ Pacific

Ocean

Region

▪ Active ▪ Active

▪ Atlantic

Ocean

Region

TDRS-M (13)

Ka-band

▪ Active

▪ Pacific

Ocean

Region

TDRS-1

TDRS-4

TDRS-9

TDRS-12

TDRS-6

TDRS-3

TDRS-5

TDRS-10

TDRS-8

TDRS-7

GEO

Super Sync

TDRS-11

Guam

TDRS-13 WSC

VisionOur

Router Optical

Links ATM Switch

LEO

MEO

GEO

L2 & Lunar

Our Vision Fully Connected Interoperable Space Assets

Other Government

Agencies (OGAs) &

International Partners Commercial

Industry

Commercial Gateways

NASA/SCaN

NASA/SCaN Gateways

OGAs and International

Partners Gateways

Public Private Partnership for Communications and Navigation Space Services

NASA is exploring options to offer:

▪ Shared spacecraft/network development to introduce innovative optical and enhanced RF capabilities, providing operational services to

NASA through shared investment, standards, risks, and benefits.

▪ Foster the growth of commercial satellite communications market (from low Earth orbit to

Moon and beyond).

NASA is exploring the ability to obtain:

▪ Commercial capabilities for future NASA missions aligned with NASA-envisioned Next

Generation Architecture.

▪ Basis of future acquisition activities to help share the cost and risk of developing and providing these services and capabilities.

Considerations for Commercially

Provided Services

▪ NASA’s vision entails the use and interoperability of the industry-provided services with those provided by NASA, International partners and Other

Government Agencies (OGAs).

▪ Relies on agreement of standards for compatible optical (or Radio Frequency) space interfaces, bus interfaces (e.g., hosted payloads), ground stations, service management (scheduling, accounting), operations (access & authentication), data distribution.

▪ Compatibility among service providers to enable competition, reduce risk to changing or ending services.

VisionRealizing the

D ee p S p ac e N ea r

Ea rt h

Weather Dependent Automatic Switching

Spacecraft TT&C Commercial

OGS International Partner

OGS

SCaN Deep Space

OGS

User “Mini” OGSs

SCaN OGSs

Moon

L1

Mars

User MoCs

2M Km

Leo

Geo

Optical Crosslink

Network Operations Control Center

Return/Forward Data

Wideband Ka-band

Next Generation

High-throughput

Ka-band hardware

Technology Development Wide bandwidth Ka-band systems that spans 20 GHz to 40 GHz

Mission Flexibility Missions would be able to connect to government and commercial networks that best fit their missions needs

Breaking Ka-band Interoperability Barriers

⨁ NASA Ka-band Ground Stations

⨁ Other Govt. & International/ Commercial Ka-band/Optical

Ground Stations

⨁ NASA Ka-band/Optical

Ground Stations

⨁ NASA Next

GEN

⨁ Other Govt. & International/ Commercial Ka-band/Optical

Relay Satellite

⨁ NASA Mission

⨁ NASA

Exploration

Mission⨁ NASA TDRS

⨁ Commercial Communication

Satellite

⨁ Other Govt. & International/

Commercial Ka-band/ Optical Ground Stations

Missions Status

SHIM EDU

Electrical Integration to Surrogate Plate

Optical Module #1

Thermal Vacuum Testing

Modem #1

Vibration Testing

Optical Module #2

Vibration Testing

• Launch date: 2019

• Ka-band and Optical payloads onboard

Geostationary satellite

• Technology demonstration to test Optical Relay capabilities with Ka-band

• New Optical Ground Stations under development

Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD)

User Terminals: ILLUMA-T & O2O

▪ 2-axis gimbal with brushless torque motors hemispherical field of regard

+/- 175 degrees Azimuth

+/- 120 degrees Elevation

▪ ~13 kg total mass for 10 cm model

▪ Develop 20 cm model for GEO terminals, including GEO crosslinks

Hybrid AntennaRF/Optical

Development Status

• Completed early optical studies with pair of 35cm panels

• Fielded second generation focal plane assembly

• Low temperature cryo demonstrated (0.5K at detector)

• Integrate 8-m optical apertures into a DSN

34m Beam Waveguide antenna

• Replace inner RF panels with primary spherical mirrors

(small loss to RF performance)

• Mount spherical aberration correction optics and receiver package behind RF subreflector

Technology Concept (Artist rendition)

D ee p S p ac e N ea r

Ea rt h

2M Km

Network Operations Control Center

RF/Optical Hybrid Antenna

Optical Ground Station

DSOC on Discovery Psyche Asteroid Mission 125 Mbps from 40M km

DSOC Gen-1 Optical User Terminal

Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)

CognitiveNetwork

Network

Awareness

▪ Integrated ground-based weather sensors

▪ Dynamic links switched based on predicted performance

▪ Automatic routing and fusing of ground data

Other Cognitive

Technologies

▪ Adaptive coding & modulation

▪ Self-configured links

▪ Reliability-based asset assignment

▪ Integration of cognitive security

LCRD

GEO Relay

Technology

Demonstration

Demonstrations

Technology2019 2019-2021 2022

ILLUMA-T on ISS:

1.244 Gbps Relay User

▪ LEO satellite acquisition and tracking in a GEO relay system

(LCRD)

▪ ISS LCRD Earth

Near Earth DTE Technologies

▪ 200 Gbps user terminal

▪ 200 Gbps low cost ground station

20192019 2021 2022

Discovery Psyche:

125 Mbps Demo

▪ Deep space optical link

▪ Launch on Discovery 2022 mission

▪ Five (5) meter Palomar telescope

Deep Space DTE Technologies

▪ Space user terminal for 125 Mbps at 40 Mkm range

▪ 5 meter Optical Ground Station

ILLUMA-T

User Relay

Technology

Demonstration

Discovery Psyche Deep Space

Technology

Demonstration

Operations 2022 - 2024 2025 - 2027 2026

Relay Operational Services

Reuses LCRD and adds two more GEO relay node to the network

▪ Based on LCRD design

▪ Augments near earth DTE network

▪ Cognitive networking in operations

TeraByte InfraRed

Delivery (TBIRD) Near Earth DTE

Demonstration

Near Earth DTE

Operational Services

Initially two SCaN operated ground stations; other added incrementally

▪ Scheduling

▪ Ground data buffering and routing

▪ Cognitive algorithms

Adds deep space class terminals to the architecture

▪ Based on first generation terminals

▪ Ready to support missions starting in 2026

Deep Space

Operational Services

▪ Space technologies based on COTS products

▪ CubeSat-sized, low SWaP user terminal

▪ User-site installable ground station:

eliminates data backhaul

TeraByte InfraRed Delivery

(TBIRD)

200 Gbps Demo

Near Earth Relay Technologies

▪ 1.244 Gbps GEO relay two ground stations (2019)

▪ 1.244 Gbps user terminal (2021)

▪ 100 Gbps GEO relay, user & ground station (2023) – Second Gen

Technology Development, Demonstration, & Operational Timeline

LCRD: 1.244 Gbps

Optical Relay Demo

▪ Hosted GEO relay payload on AFRL’s experimental STPSat-6; based on

LADEE technology

▪ Routing of optical signals in a hybrid environment (RF/optical)

▪ NASA’s first frame-layer switch in space www.nasa.gov/SCaN

LIGHT Decade of

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Leveraging Commercial Partnerships:

NASA’s Leadership in the LaserComm Community

> Some of the workshop attendees and thus potential partners:

Facebook Google X (Loon) AT&T BridgeSat LaserLight OneWeb SpaceX L-3 CSW Fibertek LGS ATA Northrup Grumman Boeing Ball RT Logic

“NASA is soliciting proposals from all interested U.S. private sector enterprises that wish to enter into partnerships through Reimbursable Space Act Agreements to develop a Partnership for Commercial Optical Communication Systems (PCOCS).”

• Possible Collaborations:

– LCRD Guest Investigator Program

– Collaborative technology development and flight demonstrations

– Access to NASA’s resources including technical expertise, assessments, lessons learned

CLOSES on June 1st 2019

NASA’s Open Call for Commercial Collaboration in

Laser Communications