Created: 2022-09-05
Updated: 2023-03-04
Company - Rhea Space Activity (RSA)
Product/Service - RUBY SKY, JAM: Jervis Autonomy Module , LUNINT
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
Deep Space Navigation
- Fields
- Large Space Structures
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- Not announced
- The mirror would be installed, in orbit, into a telescope that would be used to detect hypersonic vehicles.
- Lunar Resources is an in-space manufacturing company that helped RSA develop the concept for how to construct a very large EO/IR mirror in space. O
- ne of the payloads would “spray paint” the optical coatings needed to make the EO/IR mirror on a small satellite dubbed Ruby Sky.
- At the Space Pitch Day event, the Air Force awarded Lunar Resources a $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 contract, with RSA as a subcontractor, to get the project moving.
Rhea Space Activity to develop cislunar space ‘dashboard’ for U.S. Air Force.
RUBY SKY
The RUBY SKY initiative is a ground-breaking, first-of-its-kind project designed to aid the United States and its allies in the detection of “hypersonics,” as near-peer competitors move rapidly toward the development and deployment of hypersonic missile capabilities. Hypersonics represent one of the greatest strategic threats facing the U.S. and its Five Eyes, NATO and Pacific-region partners, and the U.S. defense and intelligence establishments have lauded RSA’s RUBY SKY as a viable, efficient and holistic solution to this looming international challenge.
**The RUBY SKY project functionally and completely envisions a holistic solution to the hypersonic threat, starting with an innovative space-based optical manufacturing process, combined with origami-like structures to detect hypersonic vehicles within a small-satellite form factor. **
The aim of RUBY SKY is to cast the brightest of ‘spotlights’ over vulnerable global spots, including near-peer competitor launch areas that are otherwise dark. In time, the greatest advantage of the RUBY SKY project will be to completely nullify any strategic advantage provided to U.S. near-peer competitors by hypersonic vehicles.
JAM: Jervis Autonomy Module
LUNINT
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