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SSC Tenant Meeting: NASA Near Network (NENJ Overview

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Project Manager: David Carter Deputy Project Manager: Dave Larsen Chief Engineer: Philip Baldwin Financial Manager: Cristy Wilson Commercial Service Manager: LaMont Ruley ======February ======21, 2018 Agenda

> NEN Overview > NEN / SSC Relationship > NEN Missions > Future Trends

S1ide2 The Near Earth Network (NEN) consists of globally distributed tracking stations that are strategically located throughout the world which provide Telemetry, Tracking, and Commanding (TT&C) services support to a variety of orbital and suborbital flight missions, including Low Earth (LEO), Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO), highly elliptical, and lunar Network: The NEN is one of.three networks that together comprise the NASA1s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Networks

The NEN provides cost-effective, high data rate services from a global set of NASA, commercial, and partner ground stations to a mission set that requires hourly to daily contacts Missions: The NEN provides communication services to: - Earth Science missions such as , Aura, OC0-2, QuikSCAT, and SMAP - Space Science missions including AIM, FSGT, IRIS, NuSTAR, and Swift - Lunar orbiting missions such as LRO - CubeSat missions including the upcoming CryoCube, iSAT, and SOCON Stations: The NEN consists of several polar stations which are vital to polar orbiting missions since they enable communications services every orbit

The NEN also includes many equatorial stations which are required to provide communications to equatorial orbiting missions, geosynchronous orbiting missions, and lunar missions The NEN provides over 50,000 S/X/Ka-Band communication supports per year S1ide3 NEN Configuration NASA Owned Stations

v' Provide unique services with NASA stations - Crewed flight launch, ascent, and landing support - Ka-Band lunar mission support - University cooperative support

v' Utilize automated operations & COTS

v' Maximize usage for required mission load

Commercial Owned Stations Partner Owned Stations

v' Procure common services from commercial providers v' Continue to partner with external organizations where - LEO/GEO S-Band and X-Band services mutually beneficial - Lunar S-Band v' Additional benefit - leverage unique strengths of - Future Ka-Band partners to achieve national goals ./ Maintain balance between usage of Commercial Owned Stations & NASA Owned Stations

S1ide4 NEN SSC Services - 2018 Svalbardrl Gilmore (KSA 1) 1:11 •!• SSC provides the NEN with Telemetry, Creek (NOAA) Tracking, and Command (TT&C) services from multiple locations •!• Services are a mix of S-band and X-band North Pole Fairbanks Pre.mission ,.,aunlng & Anil)'sls (SSC) (ASF) P~Testlng " Network-Monitoring & Co,ordlnatlon Scheduling (Greenbell, MlJ) - " · (White Sands) GMaCC (Wallops, VA) Wallops

fl Bermuda South Point (NEN/Wallops RRS) (SSC)

Dongara service Type (shape) OS-band Sa ago (SSC) 0 X-band I S-bancl ($· CJ 6. Ka-Danell S-Dand I I 0 Tri•band(S/X/Ka•bancl) 1 1 Punta Arenas <> Air to Groun

> NEN Overview > NEN / SSC Relationship > NEN Missions > Future Trends

S1ide6 > The NEN has a long history of procuring services from the SSC, beginning with support from the Universal (USN) in the early 2000's NEN support started with services from the USN stations in and Australia Support expanded to include support from Alaska, which increased significantly following the transfer of PFl and PF2 to USN from Datalynx Support through SSC continued with the use of additional stations around the globe; as of 2018 the SSC supports over 20 NEN missions

NEN's support from AGO transitions Nl:N begins to ·eceive after SSC purc'lases assets tron U niversit~ of Lhile (~ .W08); supoort from the USN NFN's support I h·ough 1\1:.N su:>port at SSC also p.Jrchases t1e ~SN ,-1009) Hawaii and A.Jst·a ia USN eic:panded to include Ha'tebeest'loek (st,NSAI slc1l'ons fur ·ni~sions No1:h Pole for miss·ons th·oueh 5SC6rows to inrluding GOFS, FA'iT, inclJdins rAST, TlACC. im.:lut.h:TI-EMIS, MMS, FUSE, GLAST, plus others WIRE, plus ot'ICTS ;:md la.mch support

N EN services tron the i>Fl NEN obtains LRO SSC/USN moves PF1 and Pl-l antennas trans"tions support fron and PF2 to the North to USI\ after antennas a·e SSC/ ... Sl,J Australia, Poe fac'lity to transferred to USN from Weilhein 1-awaii, consoliclatc their f);if;ilynx (-?008) (tJLK), anci Kiru na Aloska ;:mtenn.:is

Slide? > Australia and Hawaii Support was initially through the USN and included a 13m at both sites and now includes a second 13m at Hawaii S-band TI&C services are currently provided to multiple missions including DSCOVR, GOES, LRO, MMS (4 spacecraft), RBSP (2 spacecraft), Swift, and THEMIS/ARTEMIS (5 spacecraft) > Alaska Support began with limited services from the North Pole Sm (for Jason) and 13m, but increased significantly following the transfer of PF1/PF2 from Datalynx to USN Today, all SSC services for the NEN are provided from the North Pole site and include S-band and S/X-band service from 4 antennas; including a 5.4m, 13m, 7.3m, and 11m The majority of services are provided to Aqua and Aura, but support is also provided to AIM, Landsat-7, OC0-2, QuikSCAT, SMAP, and > Santiago (AGO) NEN has received long term support from the AGO station, but support transitioned to SSC following the SSC's acquisition of the AGO station from University of Chile Today support includes 5-band services from three antennas: 9m, 12m, and 13m Current mission support includes RHESSI, Swift, THEMIS/ARTEMIS (5 spacecraft), SORCE, MMS (4 spacecraft), TORS, and HST

S1ide8 > Hartebeesthoek (Partner site through SANSA) NEN originally obtained THEMIS support from Hartebeesthoek through SANSA, but transitioned the support to SSC/USN to leverage better connectivity to the CONUS Today NEN obtains S-band services from a 10m and 12m at Hartebeesthoek for MMS and occasional launch support, including GOES LEOP support

> Kiruna Support from Kiruna was originally acquired to meet S-band TT&C requirements for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) missions (in conjunction with other SSC/USN sites) The NEN continues to receive LRO support from Kiruna, but has also expanded support to include the GPM mission

> Weilheim (Partner site through DLR) Support from Weilheim was also originally acquired to meet LRO S-band requirements, but LRO ceased support from Weilheim as of the end September 2014 The NEN has not acquired services from Weilheim since LRO support ended

S1ide9 NEN SSC Usage •!• In FY17 SSC support accounted for -18% 14,000 ------of all NEN usage overall and accounted for -46% of NEN CSP lJsage 12,026 12,000 -- 10,835 10,295 10,241 10,000 - 9,104

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> NEN Overview > NEN / SSC Relationship > NEN Missions > Future Trends

Slide 11 Slide 12 FY 2023

I QuikSCAT I I NuSTAR INEN SSC Mission Set - i I Swift (MIDEX-3) , I •!• 1ver 20 NEN mi~sions are RHESSI {SMEX-6) .. I s pported from $SC today THEMIS/ARTEMIS [MIDEX-5] .. •:• Additional missidns are AIM [SMEX-9) I qrojected to use ~SC services Terra .. qver the next few year MMS (1-4) , I .. I GPM Core OC0-2 .. I Aqua .. I Aura .. . . /RBSP (A,B) I . SORCE ' .. . I SMAP

LRO I HST " . OSCOVR " I Landsat-7 I SDO - j GOES - " TORS

CryoCube-1 I ICON i I - I STPSat-6 I UZUME J IXPE - KPLO - RPM ------L _l_ ~ Slide 13 ------Agenda

> NEN Overview > NEN / SSC Relationship > NEN Missions > Future Trends

Slide 14 r Ka-band Advancement > The new NEN Ka-band polar network will support one of the >- The NEN is studying and planning for the fastest data rates ever supported by NASA. The global network of use of Delay/Disruption Tolerant stations will provide the capacity and storage needed to support Networking (DTN) to provide reliable upcoming NEN high-rate Ka-band missions internetworking for space missions 11.3m tri-band S/X/Ka-band antennas, with radomes, and equipped The DTN protocol will be supported using with backend electronics for S- and Ka-band the DAPHNE system NASA developed Data Acquisition Processing & Handling Network The NEN plans for interoperability with the Environment (DAPHNE) system, which has been proven capable of 4 Space Network and Deep Space Network Gbps data ingestion PACE and WFIRST are potential users 1 Gbps connectivity back to NASA network (GSFC/JPL) Protocol Modules LLIz Current Baseline :c I SLE I sFTP Q. Architecture ca: ...a.:.i.::i~~Jlal ••jii• UDP C I CFDP I

Ort > NEN has been confirmed to support upcoming LEO CubeSat missions and is ~1 NISAR will collect greater than 33 lbits/day with l!l an extremely high downlink rate of 3.5 Gbps. investigating support to Lunar CubeSats Z Over lOx faster than any current NEN mission. Support to CryoCube, iSAT, and SOCON has been confirmed and mission analysis and "'I PACE will collect 5 Toits/day with a baseline ~ downlink rate of 600 Mbps. Leverages document development are underway PAl~ 3m a.; infrastructure established for NISAR ...... - NEN is investigating support to Lunar Punta Af'&nas lceCube, an EM-1 CubeSat mission (Potential 5~9) ~ WFIRST will collect -11 lbits/day and downlink NASA a: at -300 Mbps. This will be the most distant NEN NEN enhancements, including X-band uplink, 3: supported mission at the Earth-Sun L2 Halo orbit. CSP - IRIS radio compatibility, are under study Slide 15 > SSC has provided excellent support to N~SA's NEN since early 2000 > SSC currently supports over 20 NEN missions w ith an additional 7 missions scheduled to be supported in the next few years > SSC support for NEN missions provides valuable science data for Earth and Space science research > NASA plans for future collaborations w ith SSC, including the potential Ka-band antenna at Punta Arenas and CubeSat support from Haw aii and Dongara

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