Table of Figures

TABLE OF FIGURES 

 

SECTION 1: C4ISR AND EMERGING SPACE TECHNOLOGIES

 1. Current State of Space Operations (Pritchard) 

Figure 1-1 Domains, Operations, and Technologies

Figure 1-2 Aurignacian Lunar Calendar

Figure 1-3 Nebra Sky Disc

Figure 1-4 Recovered Antikythera Mechanism

Figure 1-5 Reconstructed Antikythera Mechanism

Figure 1-6 V-2 Cutaway Diagram

Figure 1-7 First Photo of Earth

Figure 1-8 Far Side of the Moon

Figure 1-9 Gemini Capsule Cutaway

Figure 1-10 SpaceX Falcon Rocket Program

Figure 1-11 Future Growth of the Space Economy

Figure 1-12 Space, From Ideation to Operation

Figure 1-13 Layered Learning Automata Stack

Figure 1-14 Autonomous System Stack

Figure 1-15 Automation versus Autonomy

Figure 1-16 Automation versus Autonomy

Figure 1-17 Cyber Human Systems

Figure 1-18 Ceres, Dwarf Planet in the Asteroid Belt

Figure 1-19 Pulsar-based Navigation  

  1. Satellite Killers and Hypersonic Drones (Slofer) 

Figure 2-1Common layers of the Earth’s atmosphere

Figure 2-2 Inclination

Figure 2-3 Shape

Figure 2-4 Molniya orbit

Figure 2-5 Altitude

Figure 2-6 Orbit Zone

Figure 2-7 Satellites by Country , purpose, and Orbit

Figure 2-8 Partial view of satellites and space debris in orbit from a global and continental view perspective

Figure 2-9 Hits on Satellites (Left)

Figure 2-10 Hits on Satellites (Right)

Figure 2-11 Various ASTAT Tests and debris creation

Figure 2-12 First, ASAT weapons used by US and Russia

Figure 2-13 AEGIS BMD SM-3 Missile Profile

Figure 2-14 Other types of ASATs and their countries

Figure 2-15 Co-orbital-based weapon types

Figure 2-16 Illustration of a practical satellite hack scenario

Figure 2-17 Image of Astroscale’s ELSA-d with the “chaser” and “target” vehicle

Figure 2-18 Visual of mission profile for the Remove Debris mission

Figure 2-19 Photo and cutaway views of the RemoveDebris cube satellite.

Figure 2-20 Sample of current and past orbital platforms

Figure 2-21 Categories of Hypersonic missiles

Figure 2-22 Launch -to- Glide Scenario

Figure 2-23 HGV is capable of skipping across the atmosphere to engage any target on the globe

Figure 2-24 HGV will have more targeting options available 

  1. Space Electronic Warfare, Jamming, Spoofing, and ECD (Nichols & Mai)

Figure 3-1 Right Triangle

Figure 3-2 Triangle on a Sphere

Figure 3-3 Napier’s Rules for Right Spherical Triangles

Figure 3-4 The Ephemeris defines the location of the satellite with six factors

Figure 3-5 Altitude of a Circular Satellite is a Function of its Orbital Period

Figure 3-6 Earth traces of synchronous satellites as they travel in sine wave over global map

Figure 3-7 Representation of Equator on a 2-dimensional paper

Figure 3-8 Representation of Equator on a circular rolled 3-dimensional paper

Figure 3-9 Representation of any inclination as a sine wave on circular rolled 3-dimensional paper-  represents a satellites Earth traces

Figure 3-10 The Earth trace is the locus of latitude and longitude of the SVP as the satellite moves through its orbit

Figure 3-11 Lake Meade before water loss 2000

Figure 3-12 Lake Meade after water loss 2021

Figure 13-13 Earth trace of satellite is the path of the SVP over the Earth’s surface in Polar view

Figure 3-14 Earth trace of satellite is the path of the SVP over the Earth’s surface in equatorial view

Figure 3-15 Example calculation: Maximum Range to a synchronous satellite that is on the horizon is 41, 759 km by Kepler’s Laws. Link loss for a 2 GHz signal would be from 189.5 to 190.9 dB

Figure 3-16 The azimuth and elevation angle from the nadir define the direction to a threat to a satellite

Figure 3-17 A spherical triangle is formed between the North Pole, the SVP and the Threat location

Figure 3-18 The elevation from the nadir and range to a threat from a satellite can be determined from the plane triangle defined by the satellite, threat, and the center of the Earth

Figure 3-19 EMS

Figure 3-20 EMS functions

Figure 3-21 Conversion of sound and acoustic wave period to frequency and back

Figure 3-22 Sound EMS regions

Figure 3-23 EMS Reduced

Figure 3-24 Conversion chart – Frequency to wavelength Ratio and Light waves in Vacuum

Figure 3-25 Radar Frequency bands

Figure 3-26 RADAR Bands (use)

Figure 3-27 Path through one-way link

Figure 3-28 One-way RADAR Equation

Figure 3-29 Two-way RADAR equation (Bi-Static)

Figure 3-30 Intercepted Communication Signal

Figure 3-31 Jammed / Spoofed Communications Signal

Figure 3-32 Intercept

Figure 3-33 Spoofing

  1. Manufacturing in Space (Jackson & Joseph) 

Figure 4-1 Long Duration Microgravity Materials Science Research.

Figure 4-2 The Juno spacecraft includes additively manufactured space system components.

Figure 4-3 Additively manufactured waveguide brackets for the Juno spacecraft.

Figure 4-4 (a) An isotherm of the Fe-Ni-Cr ternary phase diagram showing different gradient compositions. The lines represent composition gradients between 304L stainless steel and Invar 36, a simplified Inconel 625 alloy and NiFeCr alloy; (b) An isogrid mirror fabricated using a 3D plastic printer; (c) a fabricated part using laser-engineered net shaping (LENS). The mirror surface of Invar 36 and the isogrid backing is a gradient alloy that transitions from Invar 36 to stainless steel; (d) A gradient alloy mirror assembly with a metal-coated glass mirror attached to the Invar side of the assembly using epoxy; (e) Test samples of a Ti-V gradient alloy being fabricated by LENS; (f) The compositions of the gradient mirror assembly in (d), and (g) hardness and thermal expansions across the gradient mirror assembly

Figure 4-5 NCUBE2 CubeSat integrated with the ESA satellite SSETI-Express.

Materials science and manufacturing aboard the ISS

Figure 4-6 Microgravity Reduces Thermal and Solute Convection

Figure 4-7 Microgravity Minimizes Sedimentation and Buoyancy

Figure 4-8 Materials Science Facilities on the ISS: Materials Science Glovebox (MSG) Facilities

Figure 4-9 Materials Science Facilities on the ISS: Low Gradient Furnace (LGF) & Solidification Quench Furnace (SQF)

Figure 4-10 Microgravity Allows Container-less Processing to Manufacture Items

Figure 4-11 ‘SpiderFab’ is a combination structural elements and multi-dexterous robots that can control and manipulate structural elements.

Figure 4-12 A two-dimensional printed spacecraft being developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Figure 4-13 A robot on the Moon using “contour crafting” to build up a structure, layer by layer.

Figure 4-14 SuperDraco rocket engine uses an additively manufactured Inconel thrust chamber.

Figure 4-15 Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency Communications Satellite manufactured with additive processes on the Earth.

Figure 4-16 Circular economy definition framework.

 

SECTION 2: SPACE CHALLENGES AND OPERATIONS 

  1. Exploration of Key Infrastructure Vulnerabilities from Space-Based Platforms (McCreight)

Figure 5-1 Status of Cyber Security Framework Adoption by Critical Infrastructure Sector

Figure 5-2 CISA Should Improve Priority Setting, Stakeholder Involvement, and Threat Information Sharing

Figure 5-3 Chemical Facility Storage Tanks  [DHS-2018]

Figure 5-4 Competing in Space,’ National Air and Space Intelligence Center. Jan 2019

Figure 5-5 Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers

  1. Trash Collection and Tracking in Space (Hood & Lonstein) 

Figure 6-1 Ancient Greece Trash Pit

Figure 6-2 Quark TV Show Space Sanitation Vehicle

Figure 6-3 Space Sustainability

Figure 6-4 Lab Test Result Small Aluminum Ball Hitting Aluminum Block at 7 KM per second

Figure 6-5 Visualization of space debris around Earth

Figure 6-6 Falcon 9 Rocket Pressure Tank

Figure 6-7 Hoba

Figure 6-8 Space debris consists of discarded launch vehicles or parts of a spacecraft, which float around hundreds of miles above Earth

Figure 6-9: The International Space Station photographed from Russian spacecraft after undocking

  1. Leveraging Space for Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (Carter) 

Figure 7-1  “A-Train” satellite constellation

Figure 7-2  Burning in Botswana

Figure 7-3 Dubai Satellite imagery and LiDAR Digital Terrain Models urban strategic information about urban planning and prevention of flooding conditions in urban areas

Figure 7-4  Zieglergasse – Vienna’s First Climate-Adapted Street

Damage Mapping After A Disaster

Figure 7-5 Satellite map of the affected Sri Lankan coast

Figure 7-6  Satellite Images Of Environmental Impact On Coast Post-December 26, 2004, Tsunami

Figure 7-7  Copernicus monitors the impact of traffic congestion at border crossings between the EU Member States during COVID- 19

Figure 7-8  Change in concentration of NO2, ozone, and particulate matter 

  1. Bio-Threats to Agriculture – Solutions from Space (Sincavage, Carter & Nichols)

Figure 8-1 NASA Earth Fleet

Figure 8-2 Layers of Agriculture Investigation

Figure 8-3 ESA-developed_Earth_observation_missions_pillars.jpg

Figure 8-4 ISR Satellites and their Missions Diversity 

  1. Modeling, Simulations, and Extended Reality (Oetken)

Figure 9-1 The Sensoroma

Figure 9-2 The Sword of Damocles

Figure 9-3 The VPL DataGlove and EyePhone

Figure 9-4 The NASA VIEW system

Figure 9-5 The SAS Cube System

Figure 9-6A The Virtual Fixtures Robotic System

Figure 9-6B The Virtual Fixtures Robotic System

Figure 9-7 Google Glass AR Device

Figure 9-8A Microsoft Hololens Device

Figure 9-8B  Manipulation Methods

Figure 9-9 6Dof Illustration

Figure 9-10 3DoF Motion Control Platform System

Figure 9-11 MMEVR Testing Environment

Figure 9-12 Boeing Starliner Varjo XR3 Testing

Figure 9-13 NASA T2AR Project Demonstration

Figure 9-14 Mojo Advanced AR Contact Lens

 

SECTION 3: HUMANITARIAN USE OF SPACE  TECHNOLOGIES

  1. Drones and Precision Agriculture Mapping (Mumm) 

Figure 10-1 Autonomous crop data collection

Figure 10-2  Example of integrated data layers accessible from a farm management system

Figure 10-3 Example of the types of agrarian data layers stored and accessible from a farm management system

Figure 10-4 Farmers can use the drone-collected data to determine where livestock can best graze

Figure 10-5 Rendering of NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite, collecting global soil moisture data.

Figure 10-6 Sample rendering of the USDA NRCS gSSURGO satellite gathering soil data

Figure 10-7  Diagram of a wireless sensor node. Image source: Inmarsat (2017).

Figure 10-8 John Deere autonomous tractor

Figure 10-9 Transporter system types, (a) wheel-type, (b) half-crawler, (c) crawler-type

Figure 10-10 An example of augmented-reality farming solutions displayed on a regular handheld device

Figure 10-11 The Future of Weed Control-Drone Precision Spraying

Figure 10-12 Image of the Tertill automated weeder in a backyard garden

Figure 10-13 Overview of how illegal crops could be identified by drones from the U.S. Department of State

Figure 10-14 The first growth test of crops in the Advanced Plant Habitat aboard the International Space Station yielded great results.

Figure 10-15 A picture of ‘Vitacikl-T’ Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP)

Figure 10-16 A rendering of the Canoo Lifestyle Delivery Vehicle

Figure 10-17 Walmart partners with Cruise vehicles for additional robotic delivery coverage

Figure 10-18 An example of the Nuro vehicle Kroger uses

  1. Civilian use of Space for Environmental, Wildlife Tracking, and Fire Risk Zone Identification (Ryan) 

Figure 11-1 Cislunar Space

Figure 11-2 Lagrange Points

Figure 11-3 Oceanic Currents

Figure 11-4 Sea Lions Fitted with Satellite Tags

Figure 11-5 Monitoring Dam Flushing from Space

Figure 11-6 Atmospheric River Between Asia and North America
Figure 11-7 Conceptual artist rendition of how radar altimetry technology is used to gather precision data on sea levels

Figure 11-8 View of Europe – Global Urban Footprint

Figure 11-9 Map The Entire Brick Belt

Figure 11-10 Example Of One Such Jet, Captured By The International Space Station In 2019.

Figure 11-11 Record Breaking Mega-flash Lightning Events

Figure 11-12 Gas Plumes Captured with the Global Airborne Observatory over the Permian Basin in 2019

Figure 11-13 Global Satellite-Derived Map Of PM2.5 Averaged Over 2001-2006.

Figure 11-14 Portrays An Artistic Conception Of The Magnetosphere.

  1. Humanitarian Use of Space Technologies to Improve Global Food Supply and Cattle Management (Larson) 

Figure 12-1. Components of successful smart farming initiative

Figure 12-2. Unmanned ground vehicle designed for autonomous soil sample collection by Estonian University of Life Sciences

Figure 12-3. Spatially variable rate fertilization map in a Sicilian vineyard developed with use of Sentinel-2 Satellite. Two management zones are represented: black cells representing areas of high vegetative vigor and high-water content; white cells representing areas of low vegetative vigor and low water content.

Figure 12-4.  Image of Precision Vision 35X as an example of an unmanned air vehicles (UAV) with pesticide application abilities in the agricultural space

Figure 12-5. Red Angus cow wearing a GPS equipped collar that responds to virtual fencing boundaries created using satellite derived geographical information systems maps controllable virtually by the cattle producer

Figure 12-6. One Soil Agricultural in ground weather sensor monitors soil moisture and temperature

Figure 12-7. John Deere Mobile weather sensor technology mounted on hood of self-propelled sprayer

Figure 12-8. John Deere mobile weather technology user interface

Figure 12-9. (a) Movement of 36 cattle over three days in GPS monitored paddock. (b) percentage of time spent in region represented by pixel in satellite image (c) overlay of movement of cattle with normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI)

Figure 12-10. QuantifiedAg Tag measures animal temperature and activity level to provide inputs for producer interface where list of sick animals to treat is generated. The indicator light on the tag identifies which animals need treatment

Figure 12-11. MOOnitor collar is equipped with remote sensors as well as a GPS module for measuring animal movement, feeding, rumination, head position, etc. for monitoring of general animal health as well as detecting optimal breeding time for females

Figure 12-12. Explanatory diagram of use of unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to determine feed remaining in cattle bunk with capabilities to relay real-time information to feed delivery truck

Figure 12-13. Accu-Trac Vision bunk scanner arm for estimation of cattle feed remaining from the previous day

Figure 12-14 Autonomous unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), BunkBot, equipped with sensor technology for estimating feed remaining in cattle bunk

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