Orbit Logic Awarded NextView Planning System Contract
GREENBELT, MD, (May 26, 2005) -- Orbit Logic announced today a contract award from ORBIMAGE for the development and delivery of a Collection Planning System for the OrbView-5 satellite. OrbView-5 is being developed under ORBIMAGE’s NextView Second Vendor Program contract with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The current OrbView-3 operational OrbView Tasking System (OTS) software previously delivered by Orbit Logic will be upgraded to support enhanced imagery collection planning for both OrbView-3 and OrbView-5.
The Collection Planning System (CPS) will be used at the ORBIMAGE Operations Center in Dulles for OrbView-3 and OrbView-5 imagery collection planning. CPS will support both automated and manual imaging plan development based on a database of available imaging targets and satellite models. In addition to adding the OV5 planning option to the existing OV3 planning capability, Orbit Logic will develop enhanced capabilities for lights-out planning operations for both satellites and automated scheduling and deconfliction of OrbView-3/5 ground contacts. Like OTS, CPS will be integrated with Satellite Tool Kit from Analytical Graphics for map graphics and supporting computations. The system will incorporate new OrbView-5 spacecraft attitude slewing and scanning models as well as OrbView-5 constraint validation routines to supplement the existing OrbView-3 models.
“The OrbView Tasking System we delivered for OrbView-3 proved that a COTS-based approach to high fidelity planning software works.”
said Orbit Logic President Alex Herz. “This COTS-based approach is being continued for the OrbView-3/5 Collection Planning System.”
About ORBIMAGE
ORBIMAGE is a leading global provider of Earth imagery products and services, with digital remote sensing satellites and an integrated worldwide image receiving, processing and distribution network. The company currently operates the OrbView-3 high-resolution satellite launched on June 26, 2003, providing one-meter panchromatic and four-meter multispectral digital imagery on a global basis, and the OrbView-2 ocean and land multispectral imaging satellite. The company also produces value-added imagery products and photogrammetry engineering services at its St. Louis facility. ORBIMAGE distributes its products directly to the U.S. government for national security and related mapping applications. Commercial sales are handled through a worldwide network of value-added resellers, regional distributors, sales agents, and select strategic partners.
About Orbit Logic
Orbit Logic Incorporated, located in Greenbelt, MD, is a world leader in mission planning and scheduling solutions, and is the developer of STK/Scheduler, the industry-leading satellite system scheduling and resource optimization software product. Orbit Logic offers systems and related software development and engineering services for spacecraft command and control, integration and test, telemetry monitoring, mission planning and scheduling, and flight dynamics applications.