COSMIC 2 Update

Dave Ector

COSMIC PM for OSD

4 November 10

COSMIC 2

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Requirements

• GNSSRO Level 1 Requirements Documents (L1RD) status• L1RD Completed and signed 5 May 2010

• L1RD assessment underway• Initial budget/partnerships for COSMIC-2 do not fully support all

L1RD requirements• C-2 was designed to be a replication of C-1 – except X2 satellites

(12)• All at 72 degrees• 2 northern tracking stations with current latency (around 60

min average)• L1RD requires 2 inclinations – 72 degrees and 24 degrees• L1RD requires 45 min average latency

• Partnering with the AF for SSAEM sensors – 2 secondary payloads on 6 satellites• AF purchase of rockets will close budget shortfall – allow us to meet

all L1RD threshold requirements

COSMIC 2 Schedule

JPL TriG Schedule

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Acquisition Environment

• Acquisition Environment• Solid support from NESDIS• Very strong support from Weather Service• Historically solid support from OMB• New start – clearly at risk in this political environment• Being sold as a VERY low hanging fruit – very large

forecasting impacts for a small price – compared to other satellite programs

• Why not do this commercially? Is the #1 question from OMB and congress.

• International and government partnership leverage is one of our major selling points – we have outside contributions up to double the NOAA investment ($200+M)

COSMIC 2 Current Activity

• Mission Definition Review – successfully completed in August• TriG Payload

– SRR complete in August– PDR planned for November– Antenna design kicked off for COSMIC-2– Procurement strategy in draft

• Air Force is proceeding with partnership– Payloads contracts work– Discussions with STP for the Minotaur 4 – received ‘11 funding– AF provided draft MOA under review at NOAA

• NSPO is moving forward quickly on spacecraft procurement– RFI released in May– 5 RFIs under review– Plans to release RFP for 12 spacecraft by January

• NOAA working ground planning– Discussions with KSAT on ground station options– Working with UCAR on proposal to “operationalize” CDAAC processing software to

install at NSOF

PM Summary

• COSMIC 2 is on schedule even with a 3-6 month CR– NASA started the NRE for the payload in April– Internal planning money has help us get our international agreements complete– JPL is working risk mitigation activities for the NOAA paylaod– Taiwan is on track to award spacecraft contracts

• USAF partnership is imminent – comes with 2 launch vehicles– Letter of intent from the AF– Reviewing AF draft MOA

• Well coordinated L1RD is complete– Pushed the limits of the original budget which was based on COSMIC 1– Can meet threshold requirements of L1RD now that the AF has joined the team

by allocating LV money to ground stations – without requesting additional money

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Back Up Slides