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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:58:40 -0500
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Technical Announcement: USGS Defines Roles for New Satellite Mission
USGS Defines Roles for New Satellite Mission
Scientists and engineers from the Department of the Interior?s U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS) and NASA are moving forward in planning a
successor to the Landsat 7 satellite mission. With the Landsat Data
Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite expected to launch in 2011, the two
agencies have announced their roles and responsibilities in mission
development, subsystems procurement, and on-orbit operations.
NASA and USGS share responsibility for the LDCM. NASA will procure and/or
develop the space segment, consisting of the satellite, instrument, and
launch services and will also perform on-orbit satellite checkout. The
USGS will develop and implement the ground segment, consisting of the
ground receiving station network, a satellite operations facility, and
archive and image processing facilities. After launch and check-out, NASA
will transfer the satellite to the USGS to perform flight operations,
image-data capture and archiving, and product dissemination.
The USGS will use NASA procurement services to acquire mission operations
software for commanding the satellite and instrument, thus ensuring
compatibility with NASA?s space segment procurement. The USGS will
competitively procure ground segment resources, including the primary
ground receiving station at the USGS EROS Center near Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, as well as supplemental capabilities to ensure comprehensive and
timely global data acquisition. The data-collection planning capability
will be modeled after the successful Landsat 7 Long-Term Acquisition Plan
to collect global land image data and will be developed through the USGS
EROS Technical Support Services Contract. The mission operations facility
will be configured at the USGS EROS Center through commercial facility
modification contracts. The flight operations team will also be procured
competitively, similar to the approach employed for the Landsat 5 and 7
missions.
Data archive and user portal capabilities will be procured competitively,
while image processing functionality will be developed through the USGS
EROS Technical Support Services Contract. Independent ground systems
architecture analysis and integration will be led by the USGS and
supported by Federally-Funded Research and Development Center resources.
Finally, overall system integration into the existing USGS infrastructure
will be ensured through the USGS EROS Technical Support Services Contract.
Further details regarding the USGS LDCM acquisition strategy can be found
at http://ldcm.usgs.gov/.
Denver Makle
Public Affairs Specialist
U.S. Geological Survey, MS 119
Reston, VA 20192
Office (703) 648-4732
Fax (703) 648-4466
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