Space Domain Awareness

SDA Services for Growing Challenges

Space Domain Awareness

SDA Services for Growing Challenges

Track, Analyze, Respond

Space Domain Awareness (SDA) has become even more vital to mission success because of increasing commercial space activity and escalating number of international actors influencing the dynamic space theater. In today’s contested and congested environment, a complete operational picture of space domain awareness (SDA) is critical.

Tracking & Maneuver

Signal Survey & Characterization

Advanced Services

Your Trusted Commercial Provider

Kratos offers commercial RF (Radio Frequency) SDA data services supporting defense, intelligence and commercial partners. Kratos’ services augment today’s traditional resources with tools for understanding and responding to emerging on-orbit threats.

RF SDA is an emerging technology that fills key gaps in traditional SDA systems such as radar and electro-optical. By capturing native radio frequency signals, Kratos locates, identifies and track objects in space, analyzes satellite missions and operations and provides capability for responding to threats and challenges in space.

Passive RF Sensing

Uniquely tracks closely spaced objects
Operates persistently in all conditions
Accurate at all orbital regimes
Cannot track inactive objects

Ground-based Radar

Cannot distinguish closely spaced objects
Struggles beyond LEO

Electro-optical

Cannot distinguish closely spaced object
Cannot operate during daytime or when overcast
Accurate at all orbital regimes

Global RF Sensor Network

Kratos owns and operates the world’s largest commercial ground network of RF sensors. Strategically positioned apertures around the globe enable precise and persistent RF sensing, providing insight for missions in defense, intelligence and commercial operations.

The global network covers L, S, C, X and Ku bands.

Kratos’ state-of-the-art OpenSpace® Platform manages and controls the status of the global network.

Delivering Complete Space Domain Awareness

Enhance SDA with inclusion of RF data
Detect performance anomalies and their causes
Gain insights on satellite use
Determine the cause and intent of issues

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Toward a More Complete Space Domain Awareness

Find out how RF data can fill the gaps in traditional Space Domain Awareness (SDA) techniques. Learn about the limits of traditional SDA and how to enhance awareness with RF data. These RF signal measures provide a new data domain for SDA.

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