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Boeing, ExoAnalytic team to
offer Australian-operated, ready-to-go Space Domain
Awareness system
April 8, 2022
Boeing Australia and ExoAnalytic
have joined forces to offer the Australian Government a
fully operational Space Domain Awareness capability
which is ready to deploy immediately, and to be operated
by a local Australian team.
The ExoAnalytic-Boeing solution for
JP9360 Tranche 2 will provide RAAF operators with the
ability to simultaneously and exclusively task multiple
ground-based telescopes across ExoAnalytic’s global
sensor network of 350 telescopes. These telescopes will
be controlled and operated from an Australian Command
Centre delivering highly flexible Space Domain Awareness
to support RAAF space command operations.
“The Command Centre will be
operated by Boeing Defence Australia personnel who will
directly support the Australian Defence Force in real
time by monitoring critical space assets, providing
command and control and data analytics,” said Dale
McDowall, Boeing’s director of Global Business
Development - Australia and New Zealand.
“Boeing is sub-contracting to
ExoAnalytic for the program and will be supported by
ExoAnalytic’s U.S. Command Centre to provide 24/7
monitoring.”
ExoAnalytic’s telescope network is
the world’s largest Space Domain Awareness sensor
network which monitors, understands and predicts the
position and behaviors of man-made space objects in
orbit around the Earth.
“These services help our customers
to operate more safely and sustainably by identifying
and providing alerts for objects behaving anomalously or
creating potential threats such as collision risks,”
said Dr Douglas Hendrix, CEO of ExoAnalytic Solutions.
“Even the smallest item of space
debris can decommission a satellite. The capability of
ExoAnalytic’s global telescope network to see very small
and very dim objects is well beyond most ground and
space systems.”
The monitoring system is critical
to ensuring optimal reliability of defence weapon,
navigation and communications systems which rely on
satellite communications. ExoAnalytic currently provides
the U.S. government, including the U.S. Joint Task Force
Space Defense, with services comparable to those
required under JP9360 on a daily basis.
“Our JP9360 offering will provide a
low risk, robust, and sovereign ability to detect,
track, identify and characterise space-based events to
support Australia’s freedom of action in space,” said
McDowall.
“The ExoAnalytic network is also
rapidly extendable – with new sensors able to be added
cheaply and quickly.”
In a boost for sovereign space
capability, ExoAnalytic will bring its Ground Based
Optical Space Domain Awareness system to Australia and
also provide opportunity for Australian industry to
channel innovation into the global Space Domain
Awareness market.
“ExoAnalytic has been investing in
building telescope sites in Australia for some years and
has established a network of more than 70 ground-based
telescopes across 10 sites, bringing smart work into
regional communities,” said Dr Hendrix.
“ExoAnalytic will also transition
maintenance, operation, and management of the Australian
network to Australian industry with Victoria-based
iTeleQuest managing the telescope sites and the
Indigenous Defence and Infrastructure Consortium
managing maintenance and service.”
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