The Space-Based Visible Program: Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Authors:
Grant H. Stokes, Curt von Braun,
Ramaswamy Sridharan, David Harrison,
and Jayant Sharma

Web Designer: Kerry S. Capelle

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Prepared for the Space and Missile Center under Air Force Contract F19628-95-C-0002

FIGURE 1. The Space-Based Visible (SBV) sensor on the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) satellite. Figure courtesy of JHU/APL.

General Information Abstract Overview of the Space-Based Visible Program Technology Demonstrations Space-Surveillance Demonstrations SBV Metric and Photometric Processing Wide-Area-Search Capability of the SBV Sensor SBV Geosynchronous-Belt Surveillance SBV Data Catalog Phenomenology Data SBV Operations as a Contributing Sensor Space-Based Space Surveillance Operations Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (SBSSO ACTD) The COLA Scheduler RSO Catalog Maintenance Signal Processor Software Enhancements Software System and Automation Data Reduction Health and Status Daily SPOCC Operations SBV Photometry Summary Topics Of Interest: Radiation in Space Ballistic-Missile and Theater-Missile Data Collection Appendix I: SBV Hardware Appendix II: Calibration and Testing

FIGURE 4(a). SBV raw full-frame CCD exposure

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