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A Conversation with Jack Hild, VP, Digitalglobe Worldwide Satellite Magazine July/August 2011 SatMagazine Imagery + Earth Observation DigitalGlobe ImageSat NASA SSTL Plus HPA Roundtable Chris Forrester Jos Heyman Advantech Comtech AeroAstro iDirect Spacecom Space Foundation SSC Prisma sIRG/GVF and more... SatMagazine Vol. 4, No. 5 — July/August 2011 Silvano Payne, Publisher + Author Hartley G. Lesser, Editorial Director Pattie Waldt, Editor Jill Durfee, Sales Director, Editorial Assistant Donald McGee, Production Manager Simon Payne, Development Manager Chris Forrester, Associate Editor Richard Dutchik, Contributing Editor Alan Gottlieb, Contributing Editor Dan Makinster, Technical Advisor Authors Michael Carlowicz Chris Forrester Hadass Geyfman Rani Hellerman Jos Heyman David Hodgson Eugene Keane Mark Lambert Hartley Lesser Pattie Waldt Published monthly by Satnews Publishers 800 Siesta Way Sonoma, CA 95476 USA Phone: (707) 939-9306 Fax: (707) 838-9235 © 2011 Satnews Publishers We reserve the right to edit all submitted materials to meet our content guidelines, as well as for grammar and spelling consistency. Articles may be moved to an alternative issue to accommodate publication space requirements or removed due to space restrictions. Submission of content does not constitute acceptance of said material by SatNews Publishers. Edited materials may, or may not, be returned to author and/or company for review prior to publication. The views expressed in our various publications do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of SatNews Publishers. All included imagery is courtesy of, and copyright to, the respective companies. SatMagazine — July/August 2011 — Payload Cover photo: Qatar, Dohar, “The Pearl” — courtesy of DigitalGlobe A Case In Point Forrester’s Focus 48 Developing Satellite Formation Flying Software 86 by Chris Forrester by SSC + Mathworks’ Engineering Team Focus On The Hosted Payload Alliance 54 Executive Spotlight With Jim Mitchell, Boeing / Don Thomas, Iridium, Stanley O. Kennedy, Comtech AeroAstro 70 Tim Deaver, SES UGS, David Anhalt, SS/L David Hartshorn, GVF, + Martin Coleman, sIRG 74 Focus Event Achieving Major Sat Status, Spacecom 106 IBC 2011 82 by Hadass Geyfman Focus On EO + Imagery InfoBeam 08 A Conversation With Jack Hild, VP, DigitalGlobe 16 POV Geospatial Information Managing Our Future 22 Elliot Holokauahi Pulham, Space Foundation 12 by Rani Hellerman SatBroadcasting™ Natural Disasters + NASA: The Agency’s Role? 26 New Technologies Bring Peace Of Mind 78 by Michael Carlowicz by Eugene Keane The DMC Grows Up 32 DVB-S2 + DVB-RCS: Challenges + Benefits 92 by David Hodgson by Mark Lambert Landsat—A Historic Perspective 40 TechTalk by Jos Heyman A Discussion With Greg Quiggle, iDirect 66 4 SatMagazine — July/August 2011 SatMagazine — July/August 2011 — Advertiser Index Advantech Wireless 11 The 2011 International Satellite Directory 65 Arabsat 05 MANSAT 39 Azure Shine International 91 MITEQ / MCL 27 Dubai World Trade Center (CABSAT) 69 Newtec CY 07 CASBAA 53 O3b Networks 02 Comtech EF Data 04 RT Logic (Integral Systems) 93 COMSYS (VSAT 11) 47 SAT Corporation (Integral Systems) 21 JD Events (SATCON) 31 SatFinder 77 Harris Corporation 09 Space Foundation 15 IBC 2011 85 Teledyne Paradise Datacomm 06 ImageSat International 25 Wavestream 51 Integral Systems 45 6 SatMagazine — July/August 2011 InfoBeam of ESA. This agreement follows on satellite data, ESA is tasked with Funding Facilitation from the EU Regulation that was coordinating the program’s The European adopted in October 2010 for the space component. This includes Commission has Global Monitoring for Environment developing, launching and operating signed an agreement and Security (GMES) program. The five families of Sentinel satellites, confirming the transfer additional funding demonstrates that and making the data from these of funds to ESA... the existing agreement has been dedicated missions and from other working well and space agencies available for GMES cements the trust the services. This transfer of funds to European Union has ESA, which has been appropriated in ESA to execute from the EC’s Seventh Framework its role in realizing Program and GMES Initial Operations the GMES program. Program, will bridge the gap until GMES is a unique the next Multi-annual Financial endeavour that will Framework comes into play in 2014. provide decision- makers with access The first three Sentinel missions are to accurate and designed to orbit in pairs, thereby timely information offering maximum coverage of services to manage Earth’s surface. This latest injection ◊ Jean-Jacques Dordain (left), Director General the environment, of funds will cover the costs for of ESA, and Heinz Zourek, Director General of understand and operating the first satellites until the European Commission’s DG Enterprise and Industry, signed in Paris an agreement confirming mitigate the effects of the new operational EU funds the transfer of funds to ESA for the initial operations of the space component for the GMES program. climate change, and become available. It will also ensure civil security. provide initial funds that will allow This funding is for the initial the preparation of contracts for operations of the space component Since the success of GMES hinges the launch of the second satellites for the Global Monitoring for largely on the provision of robust that make up the Sentinel pairs. Environment and Security program. The agreement, Providing Key Space which secures Weather Data 104 million euros, Data products from the was signed at ESA Special Sensor Ultraviolet Headquarters in Limb Imager (SSULI) Paris by Heinz developed by the Naval Zourek, Director Research Laboratory’s General of Spacecraft Engineering the European Department and Space Commission’s Science Division were DG Enterprise officially transitioned and Industry, for use in operational and Jean- systems at the Air Force ◊ Sentinel-1, the first Earth observation satellite to be Jacques Dordain, built for Europe’s Global Monitoring for Environment Weather Agency (AFWA) Director General and Security programme. Credits: ESA–P. Carril on June 9, 2011. 8 SatMagazine — July/August 2011 InfoBeam After extensive validation of the Airglow/Aurora Spectroscopy “The SSULI team is very excited to see SSULI sensor software and derived (HIRAAS) experiment flown aboard data from the mission transition into atmospheric specification, the Air the Department of Defense (DoD) operations, the result of a large team Force Weather Agency received Space Test Program (STP) Advanced of extremely dedicated NRL scientists and engineers,” said Andrew Nicholas, SSULI principal investigator, NRL Space Science Division. The DoD Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) is managed by the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calififornia, and command and control is provided by a Example scan from the SSULI instrument, x-axis represents wavelength, y-axis is altitude and the color represents accumulated counts in one orbit joint-operational team at (101 minutes). the National Oceanic Source: Naval Research Laboratory and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a formal letter from the Defense Research and Global Observations Suitland, Maryland. The DMSP Weather Systems Directorate Satellite (ARGOS). SSULI makes mission is to generate terrestrial and (DWSD) at the Air Force Space and measurements from the extreme space weather data for operational Missile Systems Center (SMC) ultraviolet (EUV) to the far ultraviolet forces worldwide. The Air Force is the recommending that they begin (FUV) over the wavelength range Department of Defense’s executive using the SSULI data as inputs into of 80 to 170 nanometers (nm) with agent for this program. The data Space Weather models and also a 1.8 nm resolution. SSULI also from this program is also furnished as standalone data products. measures the electron density to the civilian community through and neutral density profiles of the the Department of Commerce. “These datasets now in use at the Air emitting atmospheric constituents. Force Weather Agency provide key The mission of the Air Force understanding of the atmosphere SSULI uses a spectrograph with a Weather Agency (AFWA) is to for both Department of Defense and mirror capable of scanning below maximize America’s power by civilian users,” said Sean Lynch, the satellite horizon from 10 to 27 enabling decision makers to exploit program manager, NRL Spacecraft degrees every 90 seconds. These timely, accurate, and relevant Engineering Department. observations represent a vertical weather information every time, slice of the Earth’s atmosphere everywhere. AFWA is a field SSULI measures vertical profiles of from 750 to 50 kilometers (km) in operating agency, reporting to the natural airglow radiation from depth. Use of these data enables Headquarters, United States Air atoms, molecules, and ions in the the development of new techniques Force Director of Weather, Deputy upper atmosphere and ionosphere for global ionospheric remote Chief of Staff, Air, Space and from low Earth orbit aboard the sensing and new models of global Information Operations, Plans and DMSP satellite. It builds on the electron density variation. Requirements (HQ USAF/A3O-W). successes of the NRL High Resolution 10 SatMagazine — July/August 2011 POV Elliot Holokauahi Pulham, CEO, Space Foundation On May 18, I had the privilege of testifying before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation as a third-party, unbiased expert on the Contributions of Space to National
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