Our customers are seeking novel, cost-efficient methods for tracking and sensing of space objects to build an awareness of what’s happening in space, or Space Domain Awareness (SDA).
Effective and timely identification, characterisation and understanding of any factor associated with the space domain is essential for safe and secure space operations.
QinetiQ capabilities includes:
- Distributed Coherent Sensing Networks – Exploiting decades of our Radio Frequency (RF) R&D to create a multi-static tracking algorithms that combine time and frequency signals from geographically distributed sensors to track and detect space objects.
- Space Weather sensors/modelling – Ground-based sensing to inform Space Weather impact predictions using our Space Weather tool.
- Software Defined Laser – Using laser technology to create Synthetic Aperture Lidar (SAL) and other laser sensing functions.
- Transportable Optical Ground Station – A deployable ground station capability that can accommodate a range of high precision optical systems for sensing and/or communication purposes.
