Owner manual

LEOStar
™
-3 Bus
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Mission Services
Customers can procure a LEOStar-3 spacecraft bus alone or as part of a “turn-key”
service that includes mission design, payload/instrument integration, full satellite
system environmental testing, launch site operations, early orbit checkout, and
mission operations, including instrument data delivery to principal investigators. In
addition, the LEOStar-3 bus is compatible with Orbital's Antares
™
launch vehicle.
Heritage
Twelve LEOStar-3 spacecraft have been launched to date in support of missions for
space and Earth science and Earth imaging. One of the missions is restricted.
The LEOStar-3 core design evolved over the years, continually upgrading
performance and increasing reliability to provide value to our customers. The Swift
mission for NASA GSFC provided never before seen insights into Gamma-ray
bursts and the Coriolis mission for the Air Force and the Ofce of Naval Research
demonstrated a new approach to measuring wind speed and direction over the
oceans. More recent LEOStar-3 missions include GeoEye's GeoEye-1 Earth Imager,
and NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Observatory and Landsat 8.
One LEOStar-3 spacecraft is in production. ICESat-2 will continue the precision
laser-ranging topography measurements initiated by the rst ICESat mission and
provide invaluable data needed to assess ice sheet mass balance and sea ice
thickness and to estimate biomass, helping scientists develop a better scientic
understanding of the Earth system and its response to natural or human-induced
changes.
Options
• Structure can be tailored to suit the mission, instruments, and LV
• Redundancy can be tailored to meet required design life
The Swift gamma ray observatory is a NASA MIDEX
program to detect gamma ray bursts (GRBs)
The GeoEye-1 satellite is a precision printing platform
for high resolution Earth imaging