{"id":65407,"date":"1900-01-01T01:19:58","date_gmt":"1899-12-31T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/general-atomics-otb-satellite-ready-for-launchtrue-anomaly-details-space-pursuit-in-victus-haze-mission\/"},"modified":"1900-01-01T01:19:58","modified_gmt":"1899-12-31T17:19:58","slug":"general-atomics-otb-satellite-ready-for-launchtrue-anomaly-details-space-pursuit-in-victus-haze-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/general-atomics-otb-satellite-ready-for-launchtrue-anomaly-details-space-pursuit-in-victus-haze-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"General Atomics OTB Satellite Ready for Launch,True Anomaly Details \u2018Space Pursuit\u2019 in Victus Haze Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems<\/strong> (GA-EMS) has completed full system and \u201cready for launch\u201d pre-flight testing of its Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite. OTB will launch as part of the U.S. Air Force\u2019s<\/strong> Space Technology Program (STP-2) flight on the SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon Heavy rocket. The OTB hosts multiple payloads on a single platform for on-orbit technology demonstration.<\/p>\n

Among the hosted payloads on OTB is NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate\u2019s Deep Space Atomic Clock, designed and built at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which supports deep space navigation and exploration.<\/p>\n

GA-EMS\u2019 Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) OTB is a versatile, modular platform designed for the simultaneous launch of multiple demonstration payloads. Hosting multiple payloads on a single satellite eliminates the need for customers to bear the costly burden of a dedicated platform and launch.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the small satellite industry grows, the OTB hosted payload platform can increase the number of flight opportunities, reduce the cost to access space, and provide a more adaptable approach to managing the integration, launch, and on-orbit operations to support commercial, civil, educational, and military payloads,\u201d said Nick Bucci, vice president of missile defense and space at GA-EMS.<\/p>\n

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True Anomaly <\/b>detailed a space-to-space pursuit between the Rocket Lab<\/strong>-built Puma spacecraft and the True Anomaly Jackal-0004 spacecraft as part of the Victus Haze mission for the U.S. Space Force<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Victus Haze is a Tactically Responsive Space (TacRS) mission for Space Systems Command (SSC), in which Rocket Lab quickly launched the mission in June, less than 17 hours after receiving the command from SSC. <\/p>\n

Rocket Lab\u2019s launch carried a spacecraft based on its Pioneer platform called \u201cPuma,\u201d while True Anomaly\u2019s Jackal-0004 spacecraft was already in orbit after launching on a prior SpaceX rideshare mission. In orbit, the goal of Victus Haze goal is to demonstrate space domain awareness (SDA) and characterization capabilities, and for the spacecraft to dynamically engage with each other.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, True Anomaly detailed the recent space-to-space pursuit in which True Anomaly was tasked by SSC on July 14. The team put together a mission plan in less than 30 minutes. Jackal-004 then executed what\u2019s known as uncooperative rendezvous proximity operations (RPO) \u2014 the Puma spacecraft maneuvered away, and Jackal performed maneuvers to reach the spacecraft and capture imagery. The mission used the company\u2019s Mosaic ground system and software. <\/p>\n

True Anomaly called the demonstration the first space-to-space pursuit of an evading target.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis mission demonstrated Jackal\u2019s ability to seamlessly execute and transition between open- and closed-loop tracking based on the mission objectives and phases of execution. Our Multi-Object Detection and Tracking (MODT) algorithm performed flawlessly and proved that it can rapidly generate hyper-accurate target orbit state estimates from onboard measurements,\u201d True Anomaly said. <\/p>\n

This is a further milestone for the Victus Haze mission. True Anomaly previously detailed Jackal circumnavigated and captured imagery and characterization of Puma within hours of its launch into an unknown orbit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has completed full system and \u201cready for launch\u201d pre-flight testing of its Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite. OTB will launch as part of the U.S. Air Force\u2019s Space Technology Program (STP-2) flight on the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The OTB hosts multiple payloads on a single platform for on-orbit technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}