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Space Dynamics Laboratory - Providing defense-critical engineering and
technology capabilities as the Missile Defense Agency’s University Affiliated
Research Center.
Established at Utah State University (USU) in 1959, SDL is a
not-for-profit unit of the USU Research Foundation. In its
UARC role as a strategic US Department of Defense
research center, SDL is charged with maintaining
and advancing essential technologies:
• Electro-optical sensor systems research and development
- Innovative sensor components and systems
- Cryo-system thermal design, development, and handling
- Data processing, handling, and analysis
- Program management
- Sensor calibration, characterization, test and evaluation
• Ground, airborne, and space rated instrument and sensor development,
integration, validation, and operations
• Data compression/decompression and data visualization for sensor
analysis, data exploitation, and data fusion
• Phenomenology measurements, modeling and simulation
• Sensor modeling and simulation
• Small/micro satellite sensor systems and components
Collaboration with university educational and research resources across a
broad range of disciplines augments SDL’s ability to accomplish breakthrough
engineering innovation while operating free from real or perceived conflicts of
interest as a trusted liaison between government and industry.
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY’S UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER
S P A C E D Y N A M I C S L A B O R A T O R Y
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY’S UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER
SDL/11-481A S P A C E D Y N A M I C S L A B O R A T O R Y
1695 North Research Park Way • North Logan, Utah 84341 • Phone 435.713.3400 • www.sdl.usu.edu 1695 North Research Park Way • North Logan, Utah 84341 • Phone 435.713. 3400 • www.sdl.usu.edu
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
S U P P O R T I N G D O D ’ S M I S S I O NUNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER
Components, Instruments
Sensors, Sensor Systems
Small Spacecraft
Cryogenic & Thermal Systems
Sensor Calibration
Independent Verification & Validation
Environmental
Stray Light
Compression
Fusion
Visualization
Dissemination
Algorithm Development
Experiment Planning
Operations Support
On-Orbit Calibration
EXPERIMENT PLANNING & OPERATIONS SUPPORT
TEST & EVALUATIONDESIGN & BUILD DATA PROCESSINGMODELING & SIMULATION
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Delivering the tools and expertise to enable the DoD to cost-e�ectively de�ne and re�ne sensors, systems, and
missions and to enable optimal decisions.
O�ering data compression, fusion, visualization, display, and dissemination for ground, air, and
space-based sensor systems.
Serving demonstration and operational missions with planning and support from
concept through operations.
Providing world-class facilities and expertise for end-to-end space quali�cation testing, characterization,
and calibration of sensor systems.
Innovating, developing, and manufacturing state-of-the-art sensor systems and enabling
technologies in support of the War�ghter.
MDSEC Missile Defense Space Experimentation Center
MKVMultiple Kill Vehicle
Bowshock I, II
SBIRS High Space Based Infrared System - High
DSE Distributed Sensing Experiment
JMAPS Joint Milliarcsecond Path�nder Survey
MSX/SPIRIT III
ABIR Airborne Infrared
NPOESS National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
ADL Algorithm Development Lab
NFIRE Near Field Infrared Experiment
PTSS Precision Tracking Space System
3GIRS/CHIRPNGAM Next Generation Aegis MissileNGAM Next Generation Aegis Missile
BEPoP Brilliant Eyes Proof of Principle
Optical, Radiometric,
Thermal, Structural, Electrical
Instrument Performance
Atmospheric Phenomenology
SDL CUSTOMER BASE:
MDA 13% NASA 8%NAVY 25% OTHER 20%
ARMY 1%
AIR FORCE 33%
RAMOS Russian American Observational Satellites
NuSAR NRL Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Synthetic Aperture Radar
EyePOD Gimbaled EO/IR Sensor
RASAR Realtime Autonomous Synthetic Aperture Radar
DCGS Distributed Common Ground Station (Navy, Marine Corp, Army, Air Force)
ATDP Advanced Threat Detection Processor
TARS MVE
DUSTER
OA Operational Adaptation
Horizontal FusionFEATHAR
ARCH Advanced Reconnaissance Compression Hardware
SHARP Shared Reconnaissance Pod
NAVIS Navy Input Station
Fusion, Exploitation, Algorithm, Targeting High‐Altitude Reconnaissance
Deployable UAV System for Targeting, Exploitation, & Reconnaissance
Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System Mission Veri�cation Equipment
3rd Generation Infrared Surveillance/ Commercially Hosted Payload
Midcourse Space Experiment/ Spatial Infrared Imaging Telescope
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Space Dynamics Laboratory - Providing defense-critical engineering and
technology capabilities as the Missile Defense Agency’s University Affiliated
Research Center.
Established at Utah State University (USU) in 1959, SDL is a
not-for-profit unit of the USU Research Foundation. In its
UARC role as a strategic US Department of Defense
research center, SDL is charged with maintaining
and advancing essential technologies:
• Electro-optical sensor systems research and development
- Innovative sensor components and systems
- Cryo-system thermal design, development, and handling
- Data processing, handling, and analysis
- Program management
- Sensor calibration, characterization, test and evaluation
• Ground, airborne, and space rated instrument and sensor development,
integration, validation, and operations
• Data compression/decompression and data visualization for sensor
analysis, data exploitation, and data fusion
• Phenomenology measurements, modeling and simulation
• Sensor modeling and simulation
• Small/micro satellite sensor systems and components
Collaboration with university educational and research resources across a
broad range of disciplines augments SDL’s ability to accomplish breakthrough
engineering innovation while operating free from real or perceived conflicts of
interest as a trusted liaison between government and industry.
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY’S UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER
S P A C E D Y N A M I C S L A B O R A T O R Y
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY’S UNIVERSITY AFFILIATED RESEARCH CENTER
SDL/11-481A S P A C E D Y N A M I C S L A B O R A T O R Y
1695 North Research Park Way • North Logan, Utah 84341 • Phone 435.713.3400 • www.sdl.usu.edu 1695 North Research Park Way • North Logan, Utah 84341 • Phone 435.713. 3400 • www.sdl.usu.edu
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE