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Pacific Defense<\/strong>, one of the leading providers of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA)<\/strong> products and solutions, announced it has signed a $9.4M Phase II contract with the Space Control Technology Branch of AFRL<\/strong> to complete the development of a low-size, weight, and power (SWaP) sensor built on MOSA principles to address the rapidly expanding challenge of space situational awareness (SSA) in the cislunar regime. <\/p>\n The \u201cMoonraker\u201d system builds upon Pacific Defense\u2019s expertise in MOSA system development, leveraging 3U software-defined radio (SDR) and graphics processing unit (GPU) technology and an open software framework comprised of company and industry-provided SSA applications. The Phase II effort will advance the work started in Phase I with the goal of producing flight-ready sensors.<\/p>\n \u201cMoonraker presents a fresh approach to space payload design and support for this critical mission,<\/em>\u201d said Bryan Terlecky<\/strong>, Vice President of Space Systems at Pacific Defense. \u201cPacific Defense will demonstrate how an open architecture approach accelerates development – from concept to a flight deliverable sensor within 24 months.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe AFRL Space Control team is excited to work with Pacific Defense to research, develop, and demonstrate these innovative and cost-effective sensing capabilities for cislunar space<\/em>,\u201d said Brian Engberg<\/strong>, Chief, Space Control Technology Branch. \u201cThis capability will help us achieve a multi-layered ability that ensures cislunar space remains a safe and transparent operational environment.\u201d<\/p>\n The Phase II contract has a 39-month period of performance culminating in the delivery of a qualified sensor for on-orbit demonstration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pacific Defense, one of the leading providers of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) products and solutions, announced it has signed a $9.4M Phase II contract with the Space Control Technology Branch of AFRL to complete the development of a low-size, weight, and power (SWaP) sensor built on MOSA principles to address the rapidly expanding challenge […]<\/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":[26,25,45,147],"class_list":["post-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-sensors","tag-sensors-actuators"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914"}],"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=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}