hello my name is bo naasz
i'm the rendezvous and capture system
capability lead for nasa
and i'm presenting today on work that
we've been doing
for on orbit servicing assembly and
manufacturing
in rendezvous proximity operations and
capture strategic technology planning
i'll start with a little scope of what
those areas mean
so rendezvous proximity operations and
capture
obviously are activities to bring
spacecraft together
and to operate in close proximity and
perform mating activities and you can
see
in the graphic on the right um
that scope applies to both spacecraft
relative activities and small body
relative activities where small bodies
are things like asteroids and comets
on orbit servicing assembly and
manufacturing
uh is an emerging set of capabilities
that uh
it includes uh servicing or on orbit
in space alteration of an asset to
repair it or to upgrade it
uh or relocate it or
or service it in some other way assembly
of course is the
on-orbit aggregation of components
complex assembly type activities or
simple
element to element mating activities
and of course manufacturers the on-orbit
manufacturer turning raw materials
or feedstock of some kind into usable
components and infrastructure
so the architectures that these
capabilities
um enable or enhance uh can be
kind of divided into four main areas in
the civil space area obviously we have
human exploration
across the top uh and and some recent
examples of that
include the in-space manufacturing
activities within stmd
and we're showing here a
graphic of the
additive manufacturing facility a
Made in Space facility on space
station
that that can produce parts manufacture
additive manufacturer um of course
the human landing system nasa's human
landing system
and the gateway artemis
program takes advantage of
in-space assembly
and uh further out in the future the
mars ascent vehicle for human
exploration of mars which will
at a minimum will have to perform a
rendezvous and capture maneuver but
may also take advantage of some
other servicing functionality perhaps on
the surface of mars
in the science area science includes
nasa science but it also includes
of course applied science and other
civil space agencies like
usgs land monitoring noaa weather
and other climate type science things
we're showing here the roman space
telescope which is a
science mission directorate at nasa
the next big telescope
which will currently has
requirement to be refuelable so that's
the service that will be provided there
and that's at
sun-earth l2 of course osam 1 and
spider are
current ongoing tech demo missions with
stmd
and then on the far right
the
2020 astrophysics decadal included
several
very large telescopes that would take
advantage of
at a minimum of servicing but
potentially also of assembly type
functionality the commercial area
there's there's some been some great
activities in commercial space
lately especially with the the mev
that's shown in the bottom middle there
of course osam ii is another stmd also
known as archinaut
it's another stmd tech demo mission
led by made in space some other science
applications were the persistent
platform
idea or instrument hoteling idea is one
where
instruments could be upgraded on a
platform
in orbit perhaps low earth orbit or
geosynchronous orbit we're showing a leo
concept here where instead of replacing
entire spacecraft we could
replace instruments upgrade instruments
on
a periodic basis and then of course
national security also has
interest in these areas
so chart four just kind of re-summarizes
those
those architecture areas human
exploration
science in the planetary earth
astrophysics and heliophysics
commercial i listed some examples there
and of course i'm very interested in
hearing feedback from commercial
folks at this conference uh on on what
what other areas they are interested in
or working on
that osam could be applied to and then
of course national security again also
space domain awareness and logistics and
other servicing functionality
so let's talk for a minute about how
osam
uh can change the comops from of a space
mission from what we normally do in
space
if you um if you
if you consider the black boxes on this
chart to be traditional sequence of
events we we develop a mission we launch
it we commission it on orbit
we operate and then we decommission uh
either when
things stop working or we run out of
fuel or the or the mission is complete
considering how osam changes that
without very much thought up front we
can add some servicing functionality
so we can relocate or refuel
a spacecraft we can um perform remote
inspection if things are
aren't going well either during
operations or or after
um after the fact and we can uh
perform removal and disposal operations
go one step further we add early design
for
um for osam for for servicing assembly
and manufacturing
and and plan on multiple launches from
the start we can do things like fuel in
the beginning
of a mission for example if a spacecraft
weighs too much
uh to launch it with its tanks full we
could just make one of the first steps
of commissioning be fueling
we could also add assembly activities
aggregate elements like we talked about
with the human exploration activities we
could
assemble or install bus modules we could
assemble large structures
we could assemble precision apertures or
we could assemble
and install instruments for example and
of course we can upgrade maintain
replace and repair
during the operation life cycle
including uh when
if we go to the next step and we enable
manufacturing on orbit
um now we can actually take
um materials potentially from from
previous missions and recycle and
repurpose them
uh or or perhaps just launch materials
and and use those materials to
manufacture large things in space that
we can't launch
um we can manufacture parts in the
beginning of a mission
if you if you look out further towards
the operational phase we could also
manufacture replacement parts and and
have those be part of our upgrade and
maintenance
cycle and so uh certainly one of
the biggest
benefits of this is that we could reduce
the need for
um uh resupply logistics by uh
manufacturing parts on need as opposed
to launching them
um uh launching a lot of spares that may
not get used
uh one more little advancement if we
have a a
in space research resource utilization
capability we could use those
um materials as part of this whole life
cycle so i think you can see how
um osam could could you know really
changes the way we look at space
missions
and and so we're we're looking at uh in
this strategic plan the gaps that
support the the outcomes that are shown
here and
and and we um and enable these you know
increased flexibility
so i i won't do i won't dwell on this
chart osam capability areas this
kind of uh taxonomizes if you will the
the
the capabilities that are necessary um
for these capabilities the next chart is
the strategic development plan context
and flow so this
is showing how we're going from the
architectures we talked about
through the outcomes and the outcomes
are kind of the verbs in that comops
chart i was showing you we identify
the capabilities that we that we need to
support those outcomes
we identify current activities that are
building those outcomes and then we are
left with the red boxes which are the
capability gaps
and so this plan has identified those
gaps and will be working
to understand and plan
a process for closing those gaps and of
course that plan will go into our
strategic thinking um we'll we'll fund
gap closing activities we'll develop new
technologies and and
infuse them into future missions a chart
here kind of focused on sbir activities
um so this is the on-orbit servicing
assembly manufacturing
activities related to sbir on the left
so on the left you see the
fy 20 solicitation topics and the
awardees
uh on the right some other activities
that are going on i already mentioned
archinaut
we have armadas going on which is a
digital assembly system
we have assemblers which is a modular
system for foreign space assembly
uh the ciras work has
has come to an end but that was a a tech
demonstration mission
um on robotic assembly and of course
there's
uh i won't i won't list them all but uh
osam
in space manufacturing we talked about
osam 1 which was formerly restore L but
now includes spider and maker sat so so
you have servicing assembly and
manufacturing all
in that tech demo mission
and um just just a couple of little
plugs um
the the osam national initiative uh you
you may have heard of is
is an activity that's been ramping up um
a continuation of the
strategic technology partnership that
that was happening
across u.s government agencies
and uh they just held a osam technology
transfer workshop
and so you can go look at the the link
on the bottom of the screen if you want
to see those details
so i'll leave it i'll leave it there for
you i think that you'll see when the uh
when the osam strategic plan comes out
there's a there's a lot of great
opportunity
to uh to develop new technologies that
are going to make
uh make space operations uh into a
completely new
um a new concept and so we're excited
about all the work that's happening and
um glad glad to have you all involved
thanks