186 SU. Mitigate Threats through Space Environment Modeling/Prediction

Team

Project Description

An integrated air and space traffic management system requires seamless and real-time access to density predictions for on-orbit collision avoidance and atmospheric reentry; future knowledge of deleterious particles including energetics, meteoroids, and debris; and near-surface weather prediction.

Project Outcomes

We will develop (i) a weather prediction model extending from Earth’s surface to the edge of space and (ii) a micrometeoroid detection and risk assessment system that, together, predict the environmental conditions needed for safe orbital, entry, descent and landing operations.

Summary of Output

• Define the process to develop a weather prediction model extending from Earth’s surface to the edge of space (~600 km altitude).
• Define the Process to develop a micrometeoroid detection and risk assessment system that, together, predict the environmental conditions needed for safe orbital, entry, descent and landing operations.