MISSION DESIGN
We provide specialty mission systems engineering throughout all phases of the program focusing on overhead ISR mission areas utilizing SAR and EO/IR sensor technology. Allview Solutions supports and leads design trades, mission architecture development, orbit and constellation design, performance analysis, requirements creation/flow down, CONOPS development and verification/validation efforts. It is imperative for a program to have strong systems engineering and requirements flow down with a proper test plan to ensure the design meets customer expectations and properly completes sell-off and validation.
Commonly seen mission unique requirements:
- Low latency tasking to processing
- High area rate, high collection capacity
- Multi-sensor constellation scheduling
- Multi-mode tasking
- Global and/or regional MTTA
- Event-based rescheduling
Each mission has its own requirements and challenges which Allview Solutions’ highly capable engineers tackle daily.
MISSION SCHEDULING
We are experts at modeling & simulation and ground scheduling. Allview Solutions has developed models and ground scheduling algorithms used for system sell-off and/or as part of ground verification on large currently operational defense programs serving SAR missions. From space to ground – high fidelity models are key throughout the life cycle of the program for design development, requirement verification, algorithm prototyping/tuning and mission analysis. We have built models of ground algorithms and representative bus & payload models (EO-IR/OP-IR/RADAR) to integrate into system level models simulating the mission to understand system limitations and inform requirement flow-down to space and ground. High fidelity data (throughput and storage), thermal, power, sensor tasking prediction & GN&C (slewing) models are all key to understanding the behavior of the system. Those same algorithms & models are delivered to ground segment to ensure implemented code used in operations meets system level requirements and customer expectations. Allview Solutions engineers shepherd this entire process from start to finish ensuring ground compliance and checkout before deploying for operations.
ON-CONSOLE OPERATIONS
A portion of Allview Solutions staff supports ongoing 24/7 operations of missions important to our nation. We are at the front line – responsible for tasking, system monitoring, anomaly response, investigation and resolution activities, analysis and trending as well as creating tools supporting these functions. In this role, our engineers have a comprehensive view of ground algorithms and system data flow, payload & bus design and the end-end process of tasking to customer product delivery.
By having our engineers work cradle to grave through the design phase of the program as part of mission engineering and working hand-in-hand with ground and space segments through verification, Allview Solutions engineers seamlessly transition into the operational phase in the unique position of understanding the entire system from top to bottom.
INTEGRATION AND TEST
From flatsats, testbeds, simulators, EDUs to flight hardware – we have decades of experience designing test infrastructure and deploying application code to execute a successful test program. We have supported flight and ground software development, system end-to-end test between space/ground, execution of space vehicle and bus flight hardware assembly integration and test programs and more.
Several use cases Allview Solutions engineers have supported:
- GN&C Hardware-in-the-loop Testbed – using a proprietary process and our extensive modeling & simulation expertise, Allview Solutions engineers have created custom models of orbital & spacecraft dynamics, gravity, magnetic field, solar position/Earth albedo, sensors, actuators and more in an integrated real-time sim communicating via flight-like interfaces with EDU hardware executing operational C&DH & GN&C FSW algorithms to verify GN&C functional performance. Critical for exposing the impacts of hardware introduced noise and timing latencies
- Fault management simulations for FSW verification and on-orbit rehearsal (contingency) campaigns
- Bus & payload simulators for SV level integration & test support
- Flight hardware integration and test campaigns
- System level (space to ground) tests focusing on critical untested interfaces pre-launch