OpenSAT, a framework for satellite design automation for responsive space

Satellite design encompasses a multitude of steps from concept to flight. Mission specifications to flight can take several years, depending on the scope, requirements and budget of the mission. A key requirement of the Air Force’s responsive space program is the capability to assemble, test, and launch a satellite within days, or even hours, versus the years of a battlefield Commander’s request. An operationally responsive space capability, such as this, will provide our forces with an advantage in future conflicts. The Commander will be able to rapidly deploy tailored space assets to strategic orbits. Currently, this capability does not exist. Red Canyon Software is proposing our innovative Satellite Design Automation (SDA) architecture SatBuilder™, in conjunction with our OpenSAT open architecture. This suite of products seamlessly integrates existing detail design tools with SatBuilder™, as well as databases tracking requirements, PnP components and payloads in inventory, with the final configuration of the satellite. SatBuilder™, an AI based toolset, provides for not only rapid design, via design wizards and integration to existing design tools, but will also generate the code for PnP components based on the final design, generate the interface for a ground control station, and track satellite test and certification.