Unlocking the Power of Space, One Pixel at a Time
Redline Space is an aerospace engineering firm that designs, analyzes, and builds space-based imaging payloads. We don’t just dream of groundbreaking technology; we empower customers by building high-performance payloads tailored to each client’s specific mission.
Services
Redline Space provides a variety of services, specializing in two core areas: proliferated LEO constellations and precision National Security Assets. Ranging from thermal infrared Space Domain Awareness constellations all the way to active LiDAR ranging systems for missile defense and early warning, Redline leverages an integrated analysis skill set to solve the most challenging problems currently facing the commercial and defense sectors.
Architecture
Trades and
Radiometry
Redline Space performs comprehensive system architecture trade studies, weighing payload capability against mission requirements and critical specifications.
System Design
and Detailed
Analysis
Every payload requires detailed and comprehensive system design, analysis and verification. Redline Space uses powerful tools such as CODE V, NASTRAN and Thermal Desktop to produce high-accuracy performance predictions.
Payload
Manufacturing and
Test
Redline leverages a highly-vetted network of manufacturing partners including CCOS polishing, multi-layer spectral coatings, precision composite layups, and custom spacecraft developers.
Constellation
Modeling and
Global Impact
In a world of growing defense needs and a notable uptick in Space Domain Awareness development, payload providers must evaluate their offerings in proliferated constellations to ensure global benefit.
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Redline Engineers Have Built:
The Psyche spacecraft is traveling to a unique metal-rich asteroid with the same name, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. By August 2029 the spacecraft will begin exploring the asteroid that scientists think – because of its high metal content – may be the partial core of a planetesimal, a building block of an early planet.
The Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) is designed to support the defense and intelligence communities and provide global surveillance capabilities in four key mission areas: missile defense, missile warning, technical intelligence, and battlespace awareness. SBIRS is made up of numerous satellites and payloads in geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) and highly elliptical orbit (HEO), as well as ground-based hardware and software. The SBIRS satellites and sensors are designed as a follow-on capability to the Defense Support Program (DSP) with greater flexibility and sensitivity, in addition to the ability to detect short- and mid-wave infrared signals.
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment is the agency’s first demonstration of optical communications beyond the Moon. DSOC is a system that consists of a flight laser transceiver, a ground laser transmitter, and a ground laser receiver. New advanced technologies have been implemented in each of these elements. The transceiver will “piggyback” on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.
The Europa Imaging System will capture Europa’s valleys, ridges, dark bands, and other features in profound detail. EIS has a wide-angle camera (WAC) and a narrow-angle camera (NAC). Each camera has an eight-megapixel sensor sensitive to visible wavelengths of light and a small range of near-infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths. The NAC pivots 60 degrees on two axes. Both cameras will produce stereoscopic images and have filters to acquire color images.
Engineers tied together advances in optics and detector materials to deliver a high signal-to-noise ratio and excellent modulation transfer function, a measure of an optical system’s ability to show contrast within an image. These measures are among the keys to delivering fine resolution. By keeping the design small, the operator could take advantage of lower launch costs and miniature electronics and offer customers an inexpensive way to obtain multiple daily views of the same locations on the ground.
Redline Engineers Have Built:
SBIRS
The Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) is designed to support the defense and intelligence communities and provide global surveillance capabilities in four key mission areas: missile defense, missile warning, technical intelligence, and battlespace awareness. SBIRS is made up of numerous satellites and payloads in geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO) and highly elliptical orbit (HEO), as well as ground-based hardware and software. The SBIRS satellites and sensors are designed as a follow-on capability to the Defense Support Program (DSP) with greater flexibility and sensitivity, in addition to the ability to detect short- and mid-wave infrared signals.
Proliferated LEO Constellation
Engineers tied together advances in optics and detector materials to deliver a high signal-to-noise ratio and excellent modulation transfer function, a measure of an optical system’s ability to show contrast within an image. These measures are among the keys to delivering fine resolution. By keeping the design small, the operator could take advantage of lower launch costs and miniature electronics and offer customers an inexpensive way to obtain multiple daily views of the same locations on the ground.
DSOC
NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment is the agency’s first demonstration of optical communications beyond the Moon. DSOC is a system that consists of a flight laser transceiver, a ground laser transmitter, and a ground laser receiver. New advanced technologies have been implemented in each of these elements. The transceiver will “piggyback” on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft.
Europa Clipper
The Europa Imaging System will capture Europa’s valleys, ridges, dark bands, and other features in profound detail. EIS has a wide-angle camera (WAC) and a narrow-angle camera (NAC). Each camera has an eight-megapixel sensor sensitive to visible wavelengths of light and a small range of near-infrared and ultraviolet wavelengths. The NAC pivots 60 degrees on two axes. Both cameras will produce stereoscopic images and have filters to acquire color images.
NASA Psyche Mission
The Psyche spacecraft is traveling to a unique metal-rich asteroid with the same name, orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. By August 2029 the spacecraft will begin exploring the asteroid that scientists think – because of its high metal content – may be the partial core of a planetesimal, a building block of an early planet.
