1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 2 00:00:08,939 --> 00:00:11,130 This is so important for tests because 3 00:00:11,140 --> 00:00:13,640 we're testing one of the new satellites 4 00:00:13,649 --> 00:00:15,649 that will be going up into space to 5 00:00:15,649 --> 00:00:18,969 help with all of our GPS systems . Yeah , 6 00:00:20,389 --> 00:00:23,739 it's probably going to affect so many 7 00:00:23,750 --> 00:00:25,694 lives , not just military but also 8 00:00:25,694 --> 00:00:26,694 commercial like . 9 00:00:38,919 --> 00:00:42,830 So this is like one of the newest type 10 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:45,007 of satellites you could ever see . You 11 00:00:45,007 --> 00:00:47,062 are essentially doing something with 12 00:00:47,062 --> 00:00:49,396 satellite that's never been done before . 13 00:00:49,396 --> 00:00:51,451 Currently GPS users are experiencing 14 00:00:51,451 --> 00:00:54,209 some jamming in the field . So what we 15 00:00:54,220 --> 00:00:56,659 want to test here is what they can do 16 00:00:56,669 --> 00:00:59,250 to counteract all those type of things . 17 00:00:59,279 --> 00:01:01,590 So we were testing some of the jamming 18 00:01:01,599 --> 00:01:03,821 that they might be experiencing and how 19 00:01:03,821 --> 00:01:07,190 best to mitigate those issues here . 20 00:01:08,379 --> 00:01:10,720 We're testing that when the satellite 21 00:01:10,730 --> 00:01:12,930 sends out a signal , we can actually 22 00:01:12,940 --> 00:01:14,884 receive that signal . And it's the 23 00:01:14,884 --> 00:01:16,718 correct one . You don't want the 24 00:01:16,718 --> 00:01:18,940 satellite to send , you , send you back 25 00:01:18,940 --> 00:01:21,051 a signal saying that your house is 10 26 00:01:21,051 --> 00:01:23,218 miles away when it's actually right in 27 00:01:23,218 --> 00:01:25,273 front of you . We're checking all of 28 00:01:25,273 --> 00:01:27,496 that . The bath is large enough and has 29 00:01:27,496 --> 00:01:29,662 enough infrastructure around it . It's 30 00:01:29,662 --> 00:01:31,884 a quiet enough chamber that it protects 31 00:01:31,884 --> 00:01:33,718 the aircraft and other GPS users 32 00:01:33,718 --> 00:01:35,834 outside of the facility . And so we 33 00:01:35,845 --> 00:01:38,067 can't just do this in the open air . We 34 00:01:38,067 --> 00:01:40,401 definitely need to have a shielded area , 35 00:01:40,401 --> 00:01:42,512 make sure that we keep the energy for 36 00:01:42,512 --> 00:01:42,194 our testing inside the building . And 37 00:01:42,205 --> 00:01:44,427 so not only did it need to be big , but 38 00:01:44,427 --> 00:01:46,261 it also needed to be really well 39 00:01:46,261 --> 00:01:48,372 isolated between the test environment 40 00:01:48,372 --> 00:01:50,594 inside and everybody else outside . And 41 00:01:50,594 --> 00:01:52,705 so across the board , the baff really 42 00:01:52,705 --> 00:01:54,705 fit the bill in a way that no other 43 00:01:54,705 --> 00:01:56,705 facility in the United States could 44 00:01:58,889 --> 00:02:01,919 really approaching the very end of our 45 00:02:02,389 --> 00:02:04,550 campaign . And so it's exciting , we 46 00:02:04,559 --> 00:02:06,726 still have a couple more activities to 47 00:02:06,726 --> 00:02:08,726 go . We have thermal vacuum testing 48 00:02:08,726 --> 00:02:10,892 where we will simulate the environment 49 00:02:10,892 --> 00:02:13,115 that the satellite will be operating in 50 00:02:13,115 --> 00:02:15,337 during the year of experimentation . We 51 00:02:15,337 --> 00:02:17,281 also have testing to show that the 52 00:02:17,281 --> 00:02:19,337 ground system is compatible with the 53 00:02:19,337 --> 00:02:21,448 satellite and that we've designed all 54 00:02:21,448 --> 00:02:23,503 the interfaces appropriately and all 55 00:02:23,503 --> 00:02:25,615 the configurations are what they need 56 00:02:25,615 --> 00:02:25,470 to be so that we can do effective 57 00:02:25,479 --> 00:02:27,590 command and control after we launch . 58 00:02:27,669 --> 00:02:29,759 And then after that , it is really a 59 00:02:29,770 --> 00:02:33,110 fairly long campaign of testing for our 60 00:02:33,119 --> 00:02:35,230 operations group . So we have a ready 61 00:02:35,230 --> 00:02:37,286 to train milestone and that training 62 00:02:37,286 --> 00:02:39,240 involves exercises , rehearsals , 63 00:02:39,250 --> 00:02:41,970 tabletop training and making sure that 64 00:02:41,979 --> 00:02:44,146 all of the mission planners and flight 65 00:02:44,146 --> 00:02:46,368 directors and operators and the science 66 00:02:46,368 --> 00:02:48,312 team are all ready to conduct this 67 00:02:48,312 --> 00:02:50,368 experiment after we launch . And the 68 00:02:50,368 --> 00:02:52,850 value of all that is to basically allow 69 00:02:52,860 --> 00:02:56,660 for everything to be synchronized 70 00:02:56,669 --> 00:02:58,502 together , whether it be airline 71 00:02:58,502 --> 00:03:00,759 schedules or whether it be landings and 72 00:03:00,770 --> 00:03:02,992 take offs at the airports or whether it 73 00:03:02,992 --> 00:03:05,990 be military operations . NTS three 74 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:09,471 is taking that a step farther because 75 00:03:09,471 --> 00:03:11,690 we're using clocks . But we're also 76 00:03:11,710 --> 00:03:14,610 doing a demonstration of advanced 77 00:03:14,619 --> 00:03:18,190 signals and signal flexibility . And 78 00:03:18,199 --> 00:03:20,570 our ability to actually get that job 79 00:03:20,580 --> 00:03:24,110 done is predicated upon testing 80 00:03:24,119 --> 00:03:27,080 facility . Each group here we have us , 81 00:03:27,089 --> 00:03:30,949 Air Force us , Space Force A JPL had a 82 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,589 critical role in the success in testing 83 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:35,729 this NTS three satellite . So it's 84 00:03:35,740 --> 00:03:38,339 spent countless engineers time and a 85 00:03:38,350 --> 00:03:40,572 lot of engineering effort to figure out 86 00:03:40,572 --> 00:03:43,020 just exactly how to do this testing . 87 00:03:43,070 --> 00:03:46,720 And we ran into so many issues along 88 00:03:46,729 --> 00:03:48,729 the way . But with the team we have 89 00:03:48,729 --> 00:03:50,840 here , we overcame all of them before 90 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,330 rolling it , it was just , it's been 91 00:03:53,339 --> 00:03:56,649 such a great time and these engineers 92 00:03:56,660 --> 00:03:58,869 just blew me away with how much 93 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,830 engineering effort that was done and 94 00:04:01,839 --> 00:04:04,809 get to see all of our hard work done 95 00:04:04,820 --> 00:04:07,639 here and finally get to actually take 96 00:04:07,649 --> 00:04:09,760 all of this data that we've worked so 97 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:09,929 hard to get .