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- Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite (KE ASAT)
program is intended to provide the United States with the capability to
interdict hostile satellites. The KE ASAT consists of missile and weapon
control subsystems. The major components of the missile subsystem are the
booster, kill vehicle, shroud, and launch support system. The weapon control
subsystem is composed of a battery control center and a mission control
element which perform readiness and engagement planning, command and control.
The objective of this program is to define, develop, integrate and test
the necessary Kill Vehicle (KV), weapon control subsystem component and
subsystems technologies to demonstrate hit to kill performance, with debris
mitigation, against hostile satellites. The government awarded a contract
to Boeing North American, Incorporated, Rocketdyne Division, Canoga Park,
CA as a follow-on effort to a contract which was competitively awarded
in 1990. The contract exploits prior effort by a phase which will include
prototype hover testing and an option for flight testing. The purpose of
the effort is to directly pursue development work of the contractor hardware
and software together with testing since 1990, via a follow-on development
phase.
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- This effort will consist of a hover test
of the prototype KV; hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) testing of all elements
of the KE ASAT system; upgrades to tactical performance and flight qualification
of the prototype KV subsystems; and debris mitigation and system integration
testing to validate the system elements. Data to support the DOD Space
Control Architecture study will also be provided through simulation runs
and system performance estimates. Testing of the KV seeker on an airborne
platform will be investigated to gather seeker performance data that would
normally be demonstrated during flight testing.
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- A hover test of the prototype KV was
conducted in August 1997 at the National Hover Test Facility to demonstrate
the full-up KV free flight performance. Air bearing testing of the flight
qualified KV will be conducted to allow validation of the closed-loop operation
of the complete KV with actual flight software. The Weapons Control Subsystem
(WCS) will be upgraded at the Army Space Operations Center (ARSPOC) to
include: a Mission Control Element (MCE), Battery Control Center (BCC),
and Communications Network (CN). The option will extend the period of performance
for one year and will execute two flight tests.
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- The production of additional kill vehicles
and purchase of additional boosters will be undertaken in 1998 and 1999.
As a result, by 2000, the United States will have a User Operational Evaluation
System (UOES) contingency capability of 10 KE-ASATs ready for use if needed,
at a total cost of $205 million for the 4 years from FY96 through FY99.
Projected funding is $30 million for FY96, $50 million for FY97, $80 million
for FY98, and $45 million for FY99.
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- SOURCES
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- * Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite Program
KE-ASAT - 1997 Program Briefing
- * 0603892D Tactical Anti-Satellite Program
Development
- * Kinetic Energy Anti Satellite Weapon
System Boeing Factsheet
- * The US Army,s Kinetic Energy Anti-Satellite
(KE ASAT) program
- * CBD: EXERCISE OF OPTION, KINETIC ENERGY
ANTI-SATELLITE (KE ASAT)
- DEMONSTRATION/VALIDATION PROGRAM Dec
18, 1996,
- * CBD: KINETIC ENERGY ANTI-SATELLITE
(KE ASAT) TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION
- PROGRAM Jan 10, 1997
- * CBD: DASG60-97-0021 - KINETIC ENERGY
ANTI-SATELLITE (KE-ASAT)
- TECHNICAL AND ANALYTICAL SERVICES Feb
21, 1997
- * CBD KINETIC ENERGY (KE) ANTI-SATELLITE
(ASAT) TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION
- PROGRAM Feb 25, 1997
- * CBD PHASE III IMAGE ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM
(IES) FOLLOW-ON EFFORT SUPPORT
- OF THE KINETIC ENERGY ANTI-SATELLITE
WEAPON SYSTEM (KE ASAT WS)
- PROGRAM Mar 19, 1997,
- * CBD: INTEGRATED STAGE PROPULSION TECHNOLOGY
DEMONSTRATION FOR THE
- KINETIC ENERGY ANTI-SATELLITE (KE ASAT)
PROGRAM May 13, 1997
- * CBD IMAGE ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM (IES)
FOLLOW-ON EFFORT IN SUPPORT OF THE
- KINETIC ENERGY ANTI-SATELLITE WEAPON
SYSTEM (KE ASAT WS) PROGRAM Jul
- 15, 1997
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