# Presentation: 871753

## Landsat Data Continuity Mission 

**January 9, 2007**
**Bill Ochs**
**LDCM Project Manager**

## Topics

**NASA LDCM Organization**
**LDCM History**
**LDCM Observatory Overview, Operations Concept, Requirements**
**Operational Land Imager Procurement**
**Spacecraft and Mission Operations Element Procurements**
**NASA/USGS Partnership**
**LDCM Launch Readiness Date**

## LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION  -  CODE 427 

**Contracting Officer** - P. Dombrowski
**Contracting Officer** - F. Johnson

**Observatory Manager**
- Bill Anselm

**Cal/Val Manager**
- B. Markham

**Land Imager Manager**
- J. Murphy

**Ground Systems Mgr**
- Vicki Zanoni

**Project Science Office**
- Jim Irons

**Project Manager** - Bill Ochs
**Deputy Project Manager** - Del Jenstrom
**DPR/Resources** - Michele Marrie
**Secretary** - JoAnn Brasted

**Financial Manager**
- Carolyn Ellenes

**Project Support Manager**
- J. Stevens-Reid/SGT (Acting)

**Systems Assurance Mgr**. - Jack Ellis
**Safety Manager** - Dick Bolt

**Systems Manager**
- Evan Webb

**Education & Public Outreach**
- Anita Davis/SSAI

**Schedules/EVM** - J. Chipouras /Swales
**CM -** Vacant

**RA **– S. Sumner /VSI

**NASA HQ Program Exec**
- Ed Grigsby
**USGS Representative(s)**
- Mike Headley, Ray Byrnes

**Mission Systems Engineer** - T. Grems /AI Solutions
**Systems Engineer** – S. Bailey, B. Patschke,
-                                    M. Goldberg /MITRETEK
**Risk Manager** - C. Knapp /Swales
**MIT/LL** - D. Lencioni (lead)

**I&T Mgr** - Nancy Stafford
**Discipline Engrs**

**Cal/Val Engr - **B. Barnes /SAIC
**Cal/Val - **J. Storey /SAIC
**SSAI Contractors**

**Discipline Engrs **
**Gnd & Ops Consultant **- S Coyle
**GS Test Lead** - B. Pumphrey
**Ops. Eng** - R. Shendock
**Moe COTR**- Vacant
**Sys Eng **- Vacant

**Discipline Engrs**

- L. Rocchio /SSAI
- J. Allen /SSAI

**Deputy - **J. Masek
**Instruments - **P. Dabney
**Data Acquisition - **Vacant
**SSAI Contractors**
**RA - **G. Baldessari

- Last Updated : 12/2006

- LANDSAT DATA CONTINUITY MISSION  -  CODE 427

**Mission Ops Mgr**
- Vacant

## LDCM History

## LDCM History

**Landsat 7 launch on April 15, 1999**
**Release of LDCM Data Buy RFI - June, 1999**
**Earth Observing-1 satellite launch - Nov. 21, 2000**
**Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard**
**Release of Data Buy Implementation Phase RFP on Jan. 06, 2003**
**In Sept. 2003, LDCM Data Buy solicitation cancelled**
**Vendor failed to take an equity stake required to offer a true public-private partnership**
**Gov’t accepted all the risk**
**In December 2003, EOP established the Landsat/NextView Interagency Working Group (IWG) to study:**
**Combining LDCM and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) NextView requirements**
**USG owned/operated LDCM system**
**Public/Private partnership for LDCM system**
**Hosted LDCM payload on USG/Commercial satellites**

## LDCM History

**Memorandum from EOP/OSTP issued on Aug. 13, 2004 on Landsat Data Continuity Strategy**
**Summarizes outcome of interagency discussions on continuity of Landsat data**
**Departments of Defense, the Interior, Commerce, and NASA have agreed to:**
- Transition Landsat measurements to an operational environment on NPOESS
- Plan to incorporate a Landsat imager on the first NPOESS spacecraft
- Further assess options to mitigate the risks to data continuity prior to the first NPOESS-Landsat mission, including a “bridge mission”
**Meeting with EOP/OSTP on Nov. 22-23, 2004 to provide LDCM Status Update**
**Departments of Defense, the Interior, Commerce, and NASA directed to incorporate OLI onto NPOESS 2130 S/C**
**No longer continue to pursue “bridge mission”**
**OLI NPOESS accommodation study conducted between January and May of 2005**
**Included GSFC, IPO, NGST, USGS**

## LDCM History

## LDCM History

**July 2005, NASA HQ met with EOP/OSTP to explain complexities of flying on NPOESS **
**Dec. 2005, EOP/OSTP issued memorandum on Landsat Data Continuity Strategy Adjustment**
**Landsat instrument no longer on NPOESS**
**NASA to acquire single Landsat mission and deliver data to USGS**
**USGS will operate Landsat and collect, process, distribute, and archive Landsat data**
**Jan. 2006, Memorandum from NASA HQ on LDCM Procurement Strategy**
**Procure a free-flyer spacecraft (Firm Fixed Price)**
- Single prime mission contractor responsible for:
- Spacecraft
- Instrument
- Observatory I&T/Launch Site Support
- Mission Operations Element
- On-Orbit Sustaining Engineering

## LDCM History

**Sept. 2006, LDCM Procurement Strategy Change**
**Multiple contracts**
- Operational Land Imager (OLI)
- Multi-spectral, moderate resolution (circa 30m), visible and near-infrared sensor capable of providing on average 400 Landsat scenes (177km x 170km) per day to US archive
- Spacecraft using Rapid Spacecraft Development Office (RSDO) catalog contract
- RSDO issued an “On-Ramp” to the RSDO Rapid II catalog in fall of 2006 to maximize competition for the LDCM spacecraft procurement
- Mission Operations Element (MOE).
- Mission scheduling (not to include long-term and daily image collection planning and prioritization)
- Command and control
- Long-term trending and analysis
- Flight dynamics capabilities

## LDCM Observatory Overview, Operations Concept, and Requirements

## LDCM Observatory Overview

## LDCM Operations Concept

**Launch**
**Segment**

**International**
**Cooperators**
**(ICs)**

**Data Processing and**
**Archive Segment**

**Space Segment**

**Flight Operations Segment**

**User Portal**

**Calibration / Validation**

**Storage & Archive**

**LDCM**
**Ground Network**

**Mission**
**Operations**
**Element**

**Image Processing**

- wideband data

- narrowband data

- interface

- Photons

**Collection**
**Activity**
**Planning**

**Real-time link**

**Stored +**
**  ****Real-time**

**TT&C S-band link (L&EO & C)**

**TT&C**
**S-band link**

**NASA Provided**
**USGS Provided**
**NASA/USGS Provided**

## LDCM Requirements Hierarchy

## Operational Land Imager Procurement

## OLI Requirements 

**OLI is a multi-spectral, moderate resolution (30m GSD), visible and near-infrared sensor capable of providing on average 400 Landsat scenes (185km x 180km) per day to US archive **
**4 visible bands (costal/aerosol, red, green, blue)**
**1 near-infrared (IR) band**
**2 shortwave IR bands**
**1 cirrus cloud detection band**
**1 panchromatic band at higher resolution (15m) for image sharpening**
**OLI requirements are based on original LDCM data specification, therefore the sensor should be capable of providing data with the quality of previous Landsat VNIR/SWIR data**

## OLI Contract Overview

**OLI Contract Overview**

**Contract **
**Award**
**6/2007**

**OLI**
**Delivery**
**9/2010**

**IOC Complete**
**10/2011**

**Transfer Contract**
**To USGS**

**End Of **
**Basic **
**Contract**
**10/2016**

**Cost Plus Award Fee**

**OLI Design, Development, Observatory I&T, Launch Site Support, & IOC**

**Task Specific Effort **
**+**** ****On-Orbit Incentives**

**On-Orbit Sustaining Engineering **
**(5 yrs. +  five 1-year options for **
**extended operations)**

**OLI Contract**
**Instrument, Observatory I&T/Launch Site Support, & **
**On-Orbit Sustaining Engineering**

_**Mission Responsibility - NASA**_

_**Mission Responsibility - USGS**_

**Participate **
**in Bus **
**Interface **
**Studies**

**Launch**
**7/2011**

## OLI Procurement Timeline

## Spacecraft and MOE Procurements

## LDCM Spacecraft

**RSDO S/C **
**“****On-Ramp” to Rapid II Catalog to ****permit all qualified spacecraft vendors to be added to the current RSDO catalog – On-Ramp Closed Dec. 15****th**
- New Rapid II catalog available – March 2007
**Multiple vendors will be selected for 4 month study – May 2007**
- Study topics include communications architecture, instrument interface, mission operation element interface, I&T planning, MAR/”Golden Rules”/LDCM Environmental Verification Requirements, etc.
**Final Request For Offer release and selection after study phase**
- Contract includes:
- Spacecraft
- Observatory I&T
- Launch Site Activities
- On-Orbit Sustaining Engineering
- 5 1-year options for additional On-Orbit Sustaining Engineering
**Spacecraft under contract – Nov. 2007**

## Mission Operations Element (MOE)

**Contract includes:**
**Command  & Control, Mission Scheduling, Long-Term Trending and Analysis, and Flight Dynamics capabilities**
**Support for Observatory I&T/Launch Site **
**On-Orbit Sustaining Engineering**
**5 1-year options for additional On-Orbit Sustaining Engineering**
**RFI was issued on Nov. 22****nd**** **
**Requested info included:**
- Reference architecture, use of COTS, approaches to I&T with spacecraft and ops team, etc.
**Responses received Dec. 14****th**
**RFP released in early summer**
**Detailed schedule is still under review**
**MOE under contract – Dec. 2007**
**Detailed schedule is still under review**

## NASA/USGS Partnership

## NASA/USGS Partnership

**NASA and DOI USGS are identified as the Landsat Program Management team under authority of U.S. Code Title 15, Chapter 82, “Land Remote Sensing Policy” and Presidential Decision Directive NSTC-3, “Land Remote Sensing Strategy,”**
**NASA Responsibilities **
**Development of**
- Space Segment, Launch Segment,  and the Mission Operations Element (MOE)
**Serve as the system integrator for the entire LDCM and lead the missions systems engineering effort**
**Lead Mission Operations through the completion of the on-orbit checkout period**
**USGS Responsibilities**
**Development of **
- Ground System (comprised of the Flight Operations and Data Processing and Archive Segments), excluding procurement of the MOE
**LDCM mission operations, after the completion of the on-orbit checkout period**
**Accept and execute all responsibilities associated with the transfer of the LDCM Operational Land Imager (OLI) instrument, spacecraft bus and Mission Operations Element contracts from NASA following on-orbit acceptance of the LDCM system including assuming contract management**

## Launch Readiness Date

## Launch Readiness Date

**Targeted Launch Readiness Date**
**July 2011**
**Critical Path to Launch**
**Instrument Delivery**
- 39 mos. after Contract Award (9/2010)
**Challenge ****	**
- Enable an instrument in delivery in 39 months but still meeting all the technical and programmatic requirements defined in the RFP package
- Schedule is only attainable through a strong partnership between industry and NASA