1. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company A NEW DOCUMENTATION PROCESS TO STREAMLINE RANGE SAFETY PROCEDURES 0 O. “Rusty” Powell, Allan Smith, Jeff Fugate Millennium Engineering and Integration Company Jeff Roberts, Alex Rawling Spaceflight 32 nd Space Symposium, Technical Track, Colorado Springs, Colorado Presented on April 11-12, 2016

2. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Millennium and Spaceflight Experience  Overview of Process Simplification Need  Standard Auxiliary Payload Package (SAPP) Process Generation Steps  Risk  Conclusion 1

3. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) Ronald Reagan Test Site (RTS) Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) Kodiak Launch Complex (KLC) Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) 2  Expertise in Pad Safety and flight analysis for Launch Vehicles, Sounding Rockets, Expendable Launch Vehicles, Missiles, and experimental balloons specializing in pre-mission and mission planning and flight safety analysis.  Safety oversight of hazardous and safety critical operations.  Risk assessment process.  Produce expert launch site safety feasibility analyses, public safety analysis and reporting.

4. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Millennium  Provide launch and range safety services at 45 th SW Over 250 launches/scrubs Over 9,000 45 th SW hazardous operations  Provide range safety services at Wallops Flight Facility Over 5,000 Hazardous and Safety Critical operations Offsite Ranges such as PMRF and WSMR  Spaceflight  Customers range from CubeSat constellations to satellites up to 575 kg  Launched 81 satellites with 138 on contract 3

5. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Define how best to safely streamline the range safety documentation process resulting in significant cost and schedule savings for small satellite missions  Establish the steps necessary to further define the key features of the SAPP process 4

6. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Create one, standardized integrated range safety requirements document for the launch of auxiliary payloads  Encompasses the intent of an MSPSP, a GOP, the AFSPC 91-710 compliance matrix and various hazardous procedures  Applies to all auxiliary payloads  Launching in “powered-off” configuration  Mass < 75 kg  Propulsive ΔV<60 m/s 5

7. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Increased Resiliency of Space Infrastructure  Shorten range safety review timelines  Ensuring rapid access to space  Launch on Demand - c apability reconstitution is paramount  Standardization  Enables quality assurance  Ensures small details completed  Ensures satellite developers complete necessary range safety documentation 6

8. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Enhance Military Capability  Adjusts process rather than acquiring materiel solution  Enables quick reaction in safe manner  Accelerated Military Development Capability  Results in more responsive architecture  Efficiently fields auxiliary solutions  Reduced Costs  Standardizes documentation  Shortens review time 7

9. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company 8  Nearly 3x increase in 3U spacecraft  Significant increase in 12U and 181-300kg class spacecraft

10. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company 9  Steady increase in number of small satellites (1-50 kg)  2011-2012 – 80%  2012-2013 – 156%  2013-2014 – 72%

11. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Decision tree analysis  Automate large sections of documentation process  Survey classification parameters (e.g., mass properties) to determine application to particular mission  Use basic, conditional questioning to follow relevant branches  Final manual steps  Gives end user flexibility  Automates and removes unneeded steps 10

12. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company 11 Full-up Range Safety Documentation for Primary Mission Pared-down Range Safety Documentation for Auxiliary Missions Range SME Input to Pare Down Auxiliary Mission Inputs Work Extensively with Specific Range for Flight Approval Automates Range Safety Process for Applicable Range-specific Checks Decision Tree Automates Database Lookup EXISTING PROCESSES SAPP EFFICIENCIES

13. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Buy-in  Change can be difficult  Adaptations work within existing constraints  Clear communication is key  Decision Tree Analysis  Must be accurate in addressing safety concerns  Will test software against sample satellite mission which will go through complete process  Verify automated results match 12

14. Millennium Engineering and Integration Company  Millennium and Spaceflight  Possess significant experience in launch and range activities  Believe documentation should not be choke point for access to space  Proposed procedure with targeted approach to range safety  Automated database sorting system  Proposed efficiencies benefit  Military missions (fast response)  Smaller auxiliary space missions (flexibility to get to orbit) 13