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Fiscal Year 2009
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Investigator(s) Agrawal, Jr., Brij N.
Sponsor National Reconnaissance Office (DoD)
Summary The objective of this continuing project is to develop and operate spacecraft laboratories to provide noteworthy improvement to the Space Systems Curricula. This project has resulted in the development of six state-of-the-art spacecraft laboratories at NPS. During 2008, several major achievements have been made in the development of the laboratories. The new Adaptive Optics Beam Control Laboratory became operational. New research capabilities including the HEL Beam Control testbed, aIRU testbed, and Wavefront Sensing testbed were installed. For the FLTSATCOM laboratory, a technical support contract for the TT&C upgrade was awarded. In the Spacecraft Design Laboratory, the aerospace design software tools were upgraded on all student workstations, and several new workstations and a color laser printer were added. In the NPS-AFRL Optical Relay Mirror Laboratory, a new star tracker was acquired for the three axis spacecraft simulator. For the Smart Structures Laboratory, a new Smart Vibration Beam System Testbed is under development and will be completed in 2008. During 2008, under course AE 4871, NPS students provided a preliminary design of the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) iSAT. In 2009, the TT&C system upgrade for FLTSATCOM Laboratory will be completed. For the Spacecraft Design Laboratory, the maintenance/upgrading of the aerospace design tools and technical library will continue. In the NPS-AFRL Optical Relay Mirror Laboratory, a flexible segmented deformable mirror will be developed. The Adaptive Optics Beam Control Laboratory will be significantly upgraded for student's research work.
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