Operational and Mission Need: ASTRIA focuses on addressing the following challenges:
- Space Protection
- Threat/Hazard Warning and Assessment
- Space Traffic Monitoring and Management
- Orbital Debris Mitigation and Remediation
- Space Law/Regulation/Guideline Adherence and Assessment
- Planetary Defense
- Planetary Protection
- Orbital Safety of Operations
- Long-Term Sustainability of Space Activities
Science and Technology (S&T) Research: ASTRIA focuses on developing, growing, and maturing capabilities and solutions in the following areas:
- Physics-based Modeling and Simulation
- Space Environment
- Space Objects
- Astrodynamics
- Information Collection and Exploitation Systems
- Information Fusion, Exploitation, and Inference on Space Objects and Events including Data Science/Analytics
- Space Object and Event Detection, Tracking, Identification, and Characterization
- Unique Space Object Identification (USOI)
- Single and multiple objects
- Information and Sensor Systems
- Inference of Relationships and Patterns
- Space Object and Event Detection, Tracking, Identification, and Characterization
- Quantification and Assessment of Uncertainty, Evidence/Information, Trust, Confidence, Consistency, Pedigree, Provenance, and Validity
- Sensor System Development
- Behavioral Analyses and Semantic Reasoning
If you have an interested in establishing a Sponsored Research Project with ASTRIA, and it is an Industry-sponsored activity in mind, please visit the following website to obtain the appropriate templates under Sponsored Research Agreements:
https://research.utexas.edu/oie/agreements-templates/oie-agreement-templates/