Resilient Space Systems Design: An Introduction

Resilient Space Systems Design: An Introduction demonstrates how quantitative resilience methodologies can be applied to a wide range of space systems and compares them against traditional approaches. It considers the full spectrum of threats facing modern space assets, from natural hazards to intentional interference, and provides a comprehensive framework for ensuring mission continuity.

The new edition includes expanded discussions of mitigation approaches for key threats in increasingly congested orbital environments. It examines the effects of various threats on space systems and ground elements, with particular attention to emerging challenges posed by proliferated low Earth orbit constellations and cyber vulnerabilities. The book also features extended coverage of calculation of avoidance, recovery, reconstitution, and a single resilience value over multiple capabilities, threats, and mitigations.

This book is intended for aerospace engineers, space systems engineers and architects, communications engineers, and network engineers working on improving the survivability and operational continuity of commercial, civil, and military space assets.

Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license

Ron Burch is the former director of Advanced Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) for the Boeing Company’s Space and Launch division. His career spanned over 35 years of satellite systems design and development experience at the Boeing Company and Hughes Aircraft Company. He continues to be active as an independent technical consultant to both the U.S. Government and industry. In addition, Mr. Burch continues to teach a Resilient Space Systems Design class at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He is an acknowledged subject matter expert in the emerging discipline of space systems resilience and has spoken both domestically and internationally on the subject. His roles have included RF, optical, and digital subsystem and payload design, systems engineering, space technology development, and leadership positions including program management. Mr. Burch received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (BSEE) from California State University, Fresno, and a master’s degree (MSEE) from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) with an emphasis in communications science. He has published numerous technical papers and is named on two U.S. patents.