Architecture for Earth's Outer Space Traffic Management and Control Enterprise
- Paper number
IAC-07-D1.4.01
- Author
Mr. William Glascoe III, Earth Outer Space Organization, United States
- Year
2007
- Abstract
The systems engineering of the enterprise architecture for decentralized management and centralized control of an Earth’s outer space traffic profile is presented. The architectural description begins with an overview of the leaders in a supranational corporation that centrally controls traffic information while nation-states to private entities manage many but not all the data feeds to a single integrated Earth outer space view of spacecraft and space weather including debris. After explaining the economic analysis of the enterprise architecture's cash flows, assets and liabilities, the technical architecture is illustrated in an object-oriented manner. Architectural behaviors and legal factors in the context of the system dynamics of the enterprise are explained. The enterprise is designed to create capabilities that meet strategic goals for the founding and cooperative actors to stay in(vested) and non-cooperative actors to buy in, while the enterprise protects itself from uncooperative and even combative actors. A transformational map from the extant systems of loosely coupled national/military infrastructures and infostructures for surveillance, operations and situational awareness to highly cohesive and tightly coupled system-of-systems for traffic management and control between airspace and outer space are described. Finally, the life cycle for the unique corps of technical risk professionals, each with a critical set of knowledge, skills and abilities carefully chosen and developed as thoughtfully as the hardware, software, and databases of the architecture will be integrated and tested is illustrated. The ability of these professionals to manage the unexpected will determine the operational success and societal acceptance of this supranational concept.
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