GPS World, May 2016
DEFENSEUPDATE NEWSBRIEFS MAY 2016 WWW GPSWORLD COM GPS WORLD 43 HRL TO DEVELOP INERTIAL SENSOR TECH FOR DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has awarded HRL Laboratories 43 million to develop vibration and shock tolerant inertial sensor technology that enables future system accuracy needs without using GPS While GPS provides sub meter accuracy in optimal conditions the signal is often lost or degraded due to natural interference or malicious jamming HRL Laboratories based in Malibu California is a corporate research and development laboratory owned by The Boeing Company and General Motors specializing in research into sensors and materials information and systems sciences applied electromagnetics and microelectronics The ATLAS project will deliver a comprehensive approach to breaking barriers in inertial sensor technology that prevent robust GPS independent military positioning navigation and guidance ATLAS will combine intimate locking of a micro electromechanical systems MEMS Coriolis Vibratory Gyroscope CVG sensor with an atomically stable frequency reference to exploit the intrinsic accuracy of the atomic hyperfine transition frequency IN SPACE SATELLITE REPAIR OFFERED BY ORBITAL ATK Orbital ATK in conjunction with customer Intelsat is entering the home stretch for a viable and hopefully profitable space payload Mission Extension Service Vehicle MEV The Orbital ATK capability is a remote in space servicing and repair capability extending the life of geosynchronous satellites by as much as 15 years The in space ability provides a satellite vehicle with batteries solar panels and propulsion systems that take over for aging satellite subsystems and possibly payloads The first launch of an MEV to service and extend the life of an Intelsat satellite is scheduled for 2018 The MEV will launch to support an aging GEOStar spacecraft heritage bus platform on orbit today Currently Intelsat is utilizing 10 such on orbit assets with the GEOStar bus
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