{"id":141496,"date":"2024-05-15T10:54:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496//?p=141496"},"modified":"2024-05-31T15:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T19:42:21","slug":"ucf-researcher-is-developing-algorithms-to-further-space-sea-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496//ucf-researcher-is-developing-algorithms-to-further-space-sea-exploration/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496//","title":{"rendered":"UCF Researcher Is Developing Algorithms to Further Space, Sea Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"
Cislunar space, which stretches from the Earth to just beyond the moon/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u2019s orbit, is about to become heavily trafficked over the next 10 years. With NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u2019s planned Artemis missions and other countries joining in the cislunar space race, there/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u2019s an interest in observing, tracking and predicting the orbit of objects like asteroids and satellites so they don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u2019t collide with spacecraft./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/n
But the process of detecting and observing space objects, known as space domain awareness (SDA), faces challenges with the extensive volume of cislunar space./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u201cCislunar space is vast,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u201d says Tarek Elgohary, an associate professor of aerospace engineering. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u201cThe current SDA infrastructure, which is mostly Earth-based, is not equipped to provide the needed coverage in cislunar space. There is a need for fast and accurate solutions to quantify uncertainties to improve predictions and provide SDA information in the absence of continuous coverage./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/n
Elgohary and his team will develop those solutions with the support of a $350,000 grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Dynamic Data and Information Processing Program. They will create a computational framework to rapidly and accurately track space objects in real time, onboard spacecraft or satellites like the Air Force Research Laboratory/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/u2019s Oracle, which is designed to increase SDA capabilities in cislunar space. The algorithms will allow Oracle and other spacecraft to operate autonomously without intervention from Earth./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141496/n