{"id":1631704,"date":"2022-09-03T07:34:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631704"},"modified":"2022-09-03T07:36:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T11:36:38","slug":"navy-looks-to-up-space-game-including-via-u-s-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navy-looks-to-up-space-game-including-via-u-s-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Looks to Up Space Game, Including via U.S. Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnavy-looks-to-up-space-game-including-via-u-s-space-force%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1631704&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_241897\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-241897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NRL\u2019s Naval Center for Space Technology is providing the robotic arms for DARPA\u2019s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites experiment. (DARPA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 With Navy interests in space capabilities on the rise, the service has been increasing spending on both research and developing space expertise among its sailors, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/naval-research-laboratory\/\">Naval Research Laboratory\u2019s<\/a> top space official.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say the Navy has really invested a lot more in recent year in space,\u201d Steven Meier, director of NRL\u2019s Naval Center for Space Technology (NCST), told a webinar sponsored by the National Security Space Association.<\/p>\n<p>For example, he said, the Navy has long had a \u201cspace cadre\u201d and recently stood up a maritime space officers program.<\/p>\n<p>The latter effort, launched last August, is to recruit officers into a designated \u201cMaritime Space Officer\u201d billet, (187x) \u201cto form a community of maritime space integration and planning professionals,\u201d explains <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navy.mil\/Press-Office\/News-Stories\/Article\/2749792\/the-new-maritime-space-officer-designator-what-you-should-know\/\">a Navy press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy, including NCST, also is now in the throes of detailing its specific space-related needs to underpin maritime operations \u2014 in part in order to transmit those requirements to the Space Force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to right now in the Navy to put together some requirements documents \u2026 to say, \u2018Hey, the Navy does have unique maritime mission needs,\u201d Meier added, with the idea of \u201cflowing them\u201d to the Space Force \u201cthat\u2019s in charge of all DoD space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But meanwhile, NCST is continuing to focus on research to help the Navy meet its own needs. Noting that \u201ca lot of people don\u2019t map out Navy and space together,\u201d he elaborated that those needs and interests fall into five baskets:<\/p>\n<p>Meier stressed that the NRL has been involved in researching and developing space systems since the dawn of the space age, and that NCST has a number of cutting-edge programs underway that range from building satellites and components to providing operational ground stations.<\/p>\n<p>For example, NCST is providing the robotic arms to DARPA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/robotic-servicing-of-geosynchronous-satellite-rsgs\/\">Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS)<\/a> program designed to create operational capability for \u201cdexterous\u201d robotic repair in space to increase the resiliency of the US satellite architecture. After some tumult in the program that caused delays, the RSGS demonstration \u2014 being executed in partnership with Northrop Grumman\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2020\/03\/spacelogistics-sat-servicing-mission-taps-new-markets\/\">SpaceLogistics<\/a> \u2014 is expected to liftoff in 2023, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2020-07-17\">DARPA\u2019s website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another cooperative program, NCST is supporting the <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/tag\/space-development-agency\/\">Space Development Agency (SDA)<\/a> in developing and managing the ground system for its initial set of data relay and missile tracking satellites, known as <a href=\"https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2022\/02\/sda-awards-1-8b-in-contracts-for-first-operational-data-transport-sats\/\">Tranche 0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re doing their entire mission management for the Tranche 0, which is 28 satellites,\u201d Meier said. \u201cSo, we\u2019re doing the mission management, the systems engineering, the trade studies, everything that needs to get done to do the entire ground segment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The center also runs its own Blossom Point ground station in southern Maryland, which Meier said was the first satellite ground station to operate on US soil. It is unique, he added, because it is \u201ctruly 24\/7, lights out, autonomous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another ground station, hilariously called Pomonkey but much more seriously supporting classified space tracking missions form Low Earth Orbit out to deep space, boasts the \u201cfastest 30m full motion antenna\u201d in the United States, Meier said. \u201cIt can turn 360 degrees to a complete circle in a little less than two minutes,\u201d he stressed. And according to his slides, the antenna also features \u201ccustomizable RF systems frequency coverage of 0.1 \u2013 22 GHz.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meier said that one of the strengths of NCST is that the center works on space systems from \u201cend to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, we have people doing things all the way from orbitology, to design, build, assemble, integrate, test, and then ultimately operate,\u201d he said, with more than a hint of pride.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"recommended-mobile mobile-only\">\n<h3 class=\"recommended-mobile__heading\">\nRecommended\t<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NRL\u2019s Naval Center for Space Technology is providing the robotic arms for DARPA\u2019s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites experiment. 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