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Working Group C |
Bridging Together Ground and Space Capabilities for Users and Operators |
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Monday – February 27, 2023 9:00 AM-11:30 AM PT |
Description |
This working group looks to bridge the gap between space and ground capabilities for various users and operators, especially system customers. Specifically, this working group aims to identify the most pressing challenges facing integration of these types of capabilities. These capabilities range from basic low-bandwidth communications to moving massive amounts of data from observation satellites, typically high-bandwidth video and imagery. Position, navigation, and timing (PNT) capabilities, such as GPS’s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), increasingly fuse together both space and ground based signals.
Various efforts to help bridge this gap are prevalent throughout civil, commercial, and national security space. For civil space, NASA has developed the Near Space Network (NSN), bridging together ground stations, low earth orbit, and deep space. An increasingly common example in the commercial space sector include cellular signals, broadcast from both satellites and ground, received from the same personal device (tablet or phone). On the national security space front, efforts such at the US Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) and US Space Force’s meshONE-Terrestrial (meshONE-T) attempt to bridge the gap in moving massive amounts of data especially for warfighters in an increasingly mobile tactical environment. Working group attendees will share their past experiences and thoughts through a whiteboarding and breakout session. A near-term strategic action plan to bridging this gap will also be developed during this session. We anticipate that these attendees will be representative of a cross-section of both ground and space system entities throughout the civil, commercial, and national security space sectors. |
| Lead | Alvin Leung, SSC/BCTI |
Biography |
Alvin Leung is the meshONE-T Technical Lead with the United States Space Force’s Civilian Service, Space Systems Command, Enterprise Corps, Los Angeles Garrison, Los Angeles AFB CA. Alvin developed architectures for the space launch ranges at the 30th and 45th Space Deltas and for the Satellite Control Network (formerly AFSCN). Previously, Alvin spent over 10 years at Boeing in various engineering and business development roles, designing satellite communications systems and integrating avionics on the International Space Station. Alvin completed his MBA and MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), and his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. A lifelong aviation and space enthusiast, Alvin is an Eagle Scout and licensed private pilot. |