{"id":263321,"date":"2022-01-11T18:37:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T23:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-476560"},"modified":"2023-12-14T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T15:45:14","slug":"cara-services","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cara\/cara-services\/","title":{"rendered":"CARA Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\" hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-secondary-navigation\"><div class=\"hds-secondary-navigation-wrapper z-top width-100 padding-0\"><div id=\"\" class=\"hds-secondary-navigation width-full border-bottom-1px text-center hds-color-mode-light hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-hdsnav\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"hds-secondary-nav-mobile-button display-flex tablet:display-flex desktop:display-none width-full flex-align-center bg-carbon-90 border-color-carbon-80 color-spacesuit-white\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"hds-secondary-nav-track\"><span>CARA<\/span><svg width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 400 400\" viewBox=\"0 0 400 400\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m4.2 122.2 195.1 195.1 196.5-196.6-37.9-38-157.8 157.8-156.8-156.8z\" \/><\/svg><\/button><div class=\"hds-secondary-nav-track grid-container grid-container-extrawide padding-0 tablet:padding-x-3 desktop:padding-x-2 \"><div class=\"hds-secondary-navigation-menu-items\"><nav><ul class=\"usa-nav__primary usa-accordion flex-justify-center margin-0\"><li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item \"><a class=\"usa-nav__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cara\/\">CA Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item \"><a class=\"usa-nav__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/conjunction-assessment\/\">NASA CARA<\/a><\/li><li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"usa-accordion__button usa-nav__link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"basic-nav-section-one\"><span>Conjunction Event Prediction<\/span><svg class=\"hds-desktop-submenu-toggle-icon display-none tablet:display-none desktop:display-block\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 400 400\" viewBox=\"0 0 400 400\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m4.2 122.2 195.1 195.1 196.5-196.6-37.9-38-157.8 157.8-156.8-156.8z\" \/><\/svg><svg class=\"hds-mobile-submenu-toggle-icon display-block tablet:display-block desktop:display-none\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" viewBox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><circle cx=\"8\" cy=\"8\" r=\"7.5\" fill=\"#0B3D91\" stroke=\"white\"\/><rect x=\"4\" y=\"7.6001\" width=\"8\" height=\"0.8\" fill=\"white\"\/><rect class=\"hds-mobile-submenu-toggle-icon-line-vertical\" x=\"7.59998\" y=\"12\" width=\"8\" height=\"0.8\" transform=\"rotate(-90 7.59998 12)\" fill=\"white\"\/><\/svg><\/button><ul id=\"basic-nav-section-one\" class=\"usa-nav__submenu\" hidden><li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \"><a class=\"usa-nav__link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cara\/step-1-conjunction-event-prediction\/\">Step 1<\/a><\/li><li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \"><a class=\"usa-nav__link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cara\/step-2-close-approach-risk-assessment\/\">Step 2 <\/a><\/li><li class=\"usa-nav__submenu-item \"><a class=\"usa-nav__link\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cara\/step-3-close-approach-risk-mitigation\/\">Step 3<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item \"><a class=\"usa-nav__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cara\/unique-conjunction-events\/\">Unique Conjunction Events<\/a><\/li><li class=\"usa-nav__primary-item\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"usa-accordion__button usa-nav__link\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"basic-nav-section-one\"><span>More<\/span><svg class=\"hds-desktop-submenu-toggle-icon display-none 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href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/cara\/cara-services\/\">CARA Overview<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"nasa-gb-align-full maxw-full width-full padding-0 hds-module hds-module-full wp-block-nasa-blocks-page-intro\">\n\t<div class=\"padding-0 bg-spacesuit-white wp-block-nasa-blocks-page-intro\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hds-page-intro hds-page-intro-banner width-full maxw-full padding-0 hds-cover-wrapper minh-tablet\">\n\t\t<div class=\"hds-foreground-wrapper display-flex\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-row grid-container grid-container-block margin-top-auto margin-bottom-auto width-full maxw-desktop-lg padding-top-9 padding-x-3 z-400\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-6 desktop:padding-right-4 margin-bottom-3 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"margin-bottom-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"page-heading-md line-height-sm color-spacesuit-white-important\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCARA Overview\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"p-lg color-carbon-30-important\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tConjunction Risk Assessment\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-col-12 desktop:grid-col-6 desktop:padding-right-4 margin-bottom-3 desktop:margin-bottom-0\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"skrim-overlay skrim-left mobile-skrim-top z-200\"><\/div>\n\t\t<figure class=\"hds-media-background  \"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cara-web-banner-wp-jul23.jpg?w=1200\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Conjunction Risk Assessment\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cara-web-banner-wp-jul23.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cara-web-banner-wp-jul23.jpg?resize=300,158 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cara-web-banner-wp-jul23.jpg?resize=768,403 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cara-web-banner-wp-jul23.jpg?resize=1024,538 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cara-web-banner-wp-jul23.jpg?resize=400,210 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cara-web-banner-wp-jul23.jpg?resize=600,315 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/cara-web-banner-wp-jul23.jpg?resize=900,473 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/figure>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p>NASA spacecraft not affiliated with the Human Spaceflight enterprise are required by NPR 8079.1 to utilize the CARA service for conjunction assessment screenings and risk analysis. CARA support to spacecraft is two-fold: pre-launch support and on-orbit support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre-launch (and as early in the planning phase as possible), CARA assists the missions in examining conjunction assessment (CA) trade studies to select an orbit that meets mission objectives while considering safety from close approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the on-orbit phase, CARA provides conjunction analysis and mitigation services.  CARA receives ephemeris and covariance data (including any planned maneuvers within the file span) from the spacecraft program\/project.  CARA Orbital Safety Analysts at Vandenberg Space Force Base screen the ephemerides against the catalog of tracked objects and provide CARA with data for any close approaches predicted to occur between a CARA-protected asset and any other object within a specified volume.  CARA performs risk analysis on these results and shares the data and analysis results with the program\/project, assisting as needed with any mitigation plan.  Details of these support services are documented in a Conjunction Assessment Operations Implementation Agreement (CAOIA) between the project\/program and CARA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Non-human space flight missions requesting CA support please reach out to the CARA team at: <a href=\"mailto:CARA-MissionSupport@nasa.onmicrosoft.com\">CARA-MissionSupport@nasa.onmicrosoft.com<\/a> for the most current CAOIA and\/or OCAP Templates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">CARA Process Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The CARA operations process is a three-step process involving the CARA Orbital Safety Analysts (OSAs) resident at the 18th SDS (Space Defense Squadron), operations facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB), the NASA CARA team, and the mission Owner\/Operator (O\/O).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/cara\/conjunction-event-prediction\">The first step<\/a>, Conjunction Assessment (CA), is the prediction of close approaches by \u201cscreening\u201d the trajectory of the protected asset against the High Accuracy Catalog (HAC). This step is performed by the CARA OSAs using two asset trajectories \u2013 one provided by the owner\/operator (O\/O) that contains any planned maneuvers during the prediction span, and the other based on non-cooperative tracking data from the DoD Space Surveillance Network (SSN) that does not have any information about upcoming maneuvers. Results of both screening runs are transferred to CARA 3x\/day for LEO spacecraft and 2x\/day for all others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/cara\/close-approach-risk-assessment\">Step two<\/a> is risk assessment. CARA has an automated tool, the Conjunction Assessment System (CAS), which processes the data and sends updated trending information to the mission customer. The CARA team then manually analyzes any conjunctions that they consider to be high risk to determine appropriate actions to be taken (i.e. Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/cara\/close-approach-risk-mitigation\">Step three<\/a> is Collision Avoidance, in which CARA works with the mission to assist with planning and execution of any risk mitigation strategies. A summary of the process is shown in Figure 3.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\"><div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\"><div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\"><figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-cover \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cara-services-fig3-updated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cara-services-fig3-updated.jpg?w=2000\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"conjunction services flow chart\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/cara-services-fig3-updated.jpg 2000w, 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src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/prefirelaunch.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/prefirelaunch.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/prefirelaunch.jpg?resize=50,50 50w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/prefirelaunch.jpg?resize=100,100 100w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/prefirelaunch.jpg?resize=200,200 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div><div class=\"label margin-bottom-1 color-carbon-black\">4 Min Read<\/div><p class=\"heading-14 color-carbon-black line-height-md margin-top-1 margin-bottom-1\">NASA Launches Small Climate Satellite to Study Earth\u2019s Poles<\/p><div class=\"display-flex 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