Space Dynamics Laboratory - Providing defense-critical engineering and

technology capabilities as the Missile Defense Agency’s University Affiliated

Research Center.

Established at Utah State University (USU) in 1959, SDL is a

not-for-profit unit of the USU Research Foundation. In its

UARC role as a strategic US Department of Defense

research center, SDL is charged with maintaining

and advancing essential technologies:

• Electro-optical sensor systems research and development

- Innovative sensor components and systems

- Cryo-system thermal design, development, and handling

- Data processing, handling, and analysis

- Program management

- Sensor calibration, characterization, test and evaluation

• Ground, airborne, and space rated instrument and sensor development,

integration, validation, and operations

• Data compression/decompression and data visualization for sensor

analysis, data exploitation, and data fusion

• Phenomenology measurements, modeling and simulation

• Sensor modeling and simulation

• Small/micro satellite sensor systems and components

Collaboration with university educational and research resources across a

broad range of disciplines augments SDL’s ability to accomplish breakthrough

engineering innovation while operating free from real or perceived conflicts of

interest as a trusted liaison between government and industry.

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY’S UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER

S P A C E D Y N A M I C S L A B O R A T O R Y

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY’S UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER

SDL/11-481A S P A C E D Y N A M I C S L A B O R A T O R Y

1695 North Research Park Way • North Logan, Utah 84341 • Phone 435.713.3400 • www.sdl.usu.edu 1695 North Research Park Way • North Logan, Utah 84341 • Phone 435.713. 3400 • www.sdl.usu.edu

THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

S U P P O R T I N G D O D ’ S M I S S I O NUNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER

Components, Instruments

Sensors, Sensor Systems

Small Spacecraft

Cryogenic & Thermal Systems

Sensor Calibration

Independent Verification & Validation

Environmental

Stray Light

Compression

Fusion

Visualization

Dissemination

Algorithm Development

Experiment Planning

Operations Support

On-Orbit Calibration

EXPERIMENT PLANNING & OPERATIONS SUPPORT

TEST & EVALUATIONDESIGN & BUILD DATA PROCESSINGMODELING & SIMULATION

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Delivering the tools and expertise to enable the DoD to cost-e�ectively de�ne and re�ne sensors, systems, and

missions and to enable optimal decisions.

O�ering data compression, fusion, visualization, display, and dissemination for ground, air, and

space-based sensor systems.

Serving demonstration and operational missions with planning and support from

concept through operations.

Providing world-class facilities and expertise for end-to-end space quali�cation testing, characterization,

and calibration of sensor systems.

Innovating, developing, and manufacturing state-of-the-art sensor systems and enabling

technologies in support of the War�ghter.

MDSEC Missile Defense Space Experimentation Center

MKVMultiple Kill Vehicle

Bowshock I, II

SBIRS High Space Based Infrared System - High

DSE Distributed Sensing Experiment

JMAPS Joint Milliarcsecond Path�nder Survey

MSX/SPIRIT III

ABIR Airborne Infrared

NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System

ADL Algorithm Development Lab

NFIRE Near Field Infrared Experiment

PTSS Precision Tracking Space System

3GIRS/CHIRPNGAM Next Generation Aegis MissileNGAM Next Generation Aegis Missile

BEPoP Brilliant Eyes Proof of Principle

Optical, Radiometric,

Thermal, Structural, Electrical

Instrument Performance

Atmospheric Phenomenology

SDL CUSTOMER BASE:

MDA 13% NASA 8%NAVY 25% OTHER 20%

ARMY 1%

AIR FORCE 33%

RAMOS Russian American Observational Satellites

NuSAR NRL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Synthetic Aperture Radar

EyePOD Gimbaled EO/IR Sensor

RASAR Realtime Autonomous Synthetic Aperture Radar

DCGS Distributed Common Ground Station (Navy, Marine Corp, Army, Air Force)

ATDP Advanced Threat Detection Processor

TARS MVE

DUSTER

OA Operational Adaptation

Horizontal FusionFEATHAR

ARCH Advanced Reconnaissance Compression Hardware

SHARP Shared Reconnaissance Pod

NAVIS Navy Input Station

Fusion, Exploitation, Algorithm, Targeting High‐Altitude Reconnaissance

Deployable UAV System for Targeting, Exploitation, & Reconnaissance

Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System Mission Veri�cation Equipment

3rd Generation Infrared Surveillance/ Commercially Hosted Payload

Midcourse Space Experiment/ Spatial Infrared Imaging Telescope

THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Space Dynamics Laboratory - Providing defense-critical engineering and

technology capabilities as the Missile Defense Agency’s University Affiliated

Research Center.

Established at Utah State University (USU) in 1959, SDL is a

not-for-profit unit of the USU Research Foundation. In its

UARC role as a strategic US Department of Defense

research center, SDL is charged with maintaining

and advancing essential technologies:

• Electro-optical sensor systems research and development

- Innovative sensor components and systems

- Cryo-system thermal design, development, and handling

- Data processing, handling, and analysis

- Program management

- Sensor calibration, characterization, test and evaluation

• Ground, airborne, and space rated instrument and sensor development,

integration, validation, and operations

• Data compression/decompression and data visualization for sensor

analysis, data exploitation, and data fusion

• Phenomenology measurements, modeling and simulation

• Sensor modeling and simulation

• Small/micro satellite sensor systems and components

Collaboration with university educational and research resources across a

broad range of disciplines augments SDL’s ability to accomplish breakthrough

engineering innovation while operating free from real or perceived conflicts of

interest as a trusted liaison between government and industry.

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY’S UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER

S P A C E D Y N A M I C S L A B O R A T O R Y

MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY’S UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER

SDL/11-481A S P A C E D Y N A M I C S L A B O R A T O R Y

1695 North Research Park Way • North Logan, Utah 84341 • Phone 435.713.3400 • www.sdl.usu.edu 1695 North Research Park Way • North Logan, Utah 84341 • Phone 435.713. 3400 • www.sdl.usu.edu

THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE