Space and Satellite Engineering

ARINC provides space and satellite engineering services to U.S. agencies and commercial markets. For example, we've performed Global Positioning System services involving factory, pre-launch, on-orbit, user equipment, Nuclear Detonation (NUDET) Detection System (NDS) characterization, and platform engineering and testing, including:

• National Missile Defense testing and missile range standardization
• Satellite test support for military ultra high frequency (UHF), super high frequency (SHF), and extremely high frequency (EHF) satellites, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, and the Defense Support Program, as well as commercial communications systems

Space Weather Technology

In the space weather arena, ARINC integrated system hardware and designed control-system software for the U.S. Air Force's Solar Radio Spectrograph, and developed long-range data-transmittal software for other Solar Observatory communications programs. ARINC's contributions helped the U.S. Air Force meet critical solar flare detection and data dissemination requirements.

ARINC's Colorado Springs office performs a variety of space weather activities for U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army Space Commands, including space weather training programs and the development of the Space Environmental Impact Tool (SEIT™), which relates solar and geophysical events to their effects on ground- and space-based systems. The office also analyzes space weather events that degrade propagation on ARINC's high-frequency ground-to-aircraft voice communications systems.

Our primary space weather capabilities are:

• Life-Cycle Sustainment Engineering
• Systems Integration
• Installation & Testing
• Technical Documentation
• Training
• Operations & Maintenance