Abstract
• This work reports on the 14th concurrent engineering study conducted at UNSW Canberra Space Australian National Concurrent Design Facility (ANCDF) during a 5-day workshop on 21-25 February 2022.
• Australia relies on foreign satellite imagery and measurements not optimised for monitoring Australian bushfire fuel flammability, leading to fires in the Australian landscape. The 2020 Royal Commission into National Natural Disasters highlights the need for whole-of-continent visibility of vegetative fuel load in terms of quantity and moisture content [RD-1].
• The Australian National University (ANU) Institute for Space (InSpace) previously developed a Pre-Phase A Report for Geoscience Australia and CSIRO in support of their contribution to Australia’s Satellite Cross-Calibration Radiometer (SCR) and AquaWatch Australia missions. That report described the OzFuel mission, its science objectives and a set of mission requirements and payload/instrument performance requirements to meet the mission objectives [RD-2].
• The current Phase A study was performed in collaboration with science and engineering personnel from the ANU, Skykraft Pty. Ltd., University of Melbourne Space Laboratory (MSL), Spiral Blue, Geoscience Australia, and UNSW Canberra Space. This Phase A study has achieved the following:
o Identified several development risks that need mitigation but found the OzFuel mission technically and programmatically feasible. While no commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) component option exists for the whole system, the complexity of the mission is not beyond the current capabilities of the global and Australian space sectors.
o Determined the value of the mission to Australia and found that crucial partnerships would be maximised by aligning to the timelines of other missions, such as SCR.
• Australia relies on foreign satellite imagery and measurements not optimised for monitoring Australian bushfire fuel flammability, leading to fires in the Australian landscape. The 2020 Royal Commission into National Natural Disasters highlights the need for whole-of-continent visibility of vegetative fuel load in terms of quantity and moisture content [RD-1].
• The Australian National University (ANU) Institute for Space (InSpace) previously developed a Pre-Phase A Report for Geoscience Australia and CSIRO in support of their contribution to Australia’s Satellite Cross-Calibration Radiometer (SCR) and AquaWatch Australia missions. That report described the OzFuel mission, its science objectives and a set of mission requirements and payload/instrument performance requirements to meet the mission objectives [RD-2].
• The current Phase A study was performed in collaboration with science and engineering personnel from the ANU, Skykraft Pty. Ltd., University of Melbourne Space Laboratory (MSL), Spiral Blue, Geoscience Australia, and UNSW Canberra Space. This Phase A study has achieved the following:
o Identified several development risks that need mitigation but found the OzFuel mission technically and programmatically feasible. While no commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) component option exists for the whole system, the complexity of the mission is not beyond the current capabilities of the global and Australian space sectors.
o Determined the value of the mission to Australia and found that crucial partnerships would be maximised by aligning to the timelines of other missions, such as SCR.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | UNSW Canberra Space |
| Number of pages | 84 |
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| Publication status | Published - 31 Oct 2022 |