Overview of Human-Centric Space Situational Awareness Science and Technology.

摘要

Several organizations within the government and industry are researching ways to help humans understand and react to events in space. Gaining space situational awareness (SSA) is both helped and complicated by the fact that there are numerous information sources that need to be planned (i.e., tasked), collected, processed, analyzed, and disseminated. This paper will outline areas of science and technology (S&T) related to human-centric SSA and space command and control (C2) and discuss related efforts within the Air Force Research Laboratory Human Effectiveness Directorate. A survey of other organizations working SSA human factors will be provided as will suggestions on where more attention may be needed. A large part of the research we are aware of is in support of the Joint Space Operational Center (JSpOC), National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), and similar organizations. Much recent research has been specifically targeting the JSpOC Mission System which has provided a unifying software architecture and vision.