4 ADITI
Development of an Indigenous Tool for Space Domain Training Surveillance and Operations in the Indian Air Force (IAF)
1. The design and development of indigenous tool for space domain training, surveillance and operations in IAF. The capabilities envisaged in the indigenous tool are as follows:-
a) Volumetric Scan. The volumetric scan provides the capability to select user defined region on the earth and detect, scan and monitor all the space objects through the selected region.
b) Neighbourhood Watch Screening. This capability provides ability for comprehensive identification, record, screening and analysis of objects passing close to, interjecting or intercepting Indian Satellites.
c) Conjunction Analysis. This capability provides predicted conjunctions and its analysis in terms of possible closest time of approach, relative velocity etc for the space objects.
d) Collision Detection. The detection of probability of collision, time of collision, relative velocities etc wrt to our satellite.
e) Blind Spot Detection. The capability to detect the absence of adversary satellites coverage over selected user defined areas.
f) Manoeuvre Detection. Detect, analyse and characterise the intentional/unintentional manoeuvres other than routine manoeuvres undertaken by any/selected satellites and their associated probability of threat to Indian space assets.
g) Characterisation and Cataloguing of Space Object. This characterisation of detected space object as a correlated or un-correlated object by correlating it existing database of space objects. The un-related tracks will be tracked for its identification by tasking the ground/space- based sensors for more number of observations and manual input of INT data related to the space object.
h) Re-entry Analysis. The analysis for re-entry space objects which may potentially cause harms to national strategic installations.
i) Rapid Processing. The rapid processing capability on the data collected for identification of sub- orbital delivery systems such as ballistic missiles, hypersonic, and other missions.
2. The software tool and associated hardware should be
compatible for working in IAF network environment.
3. The data for this software tool would be sourced from open source, high definition ephemeris data or own sources.
4. The software tool should be developed following
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and necessary
certification need to be provided as per the IAF requirement to
run in IAF environment.
5. The software tool should be scalable for furthercapability development and to be maintained for its availability by the developing agency.
6. The licensing would be perpetual based licensing.