Joint military space operations simulation as a service

Abstract

Our Training and Experimentation Cloud Architecture, namely the hTEC, is applied to joint military space operations simulation. The hTEC follows the recommendations on the modelling and simulation as a service (MSaaS) by NATO Science and Technology Organization. The space mission areas and their characteristics are investigated and the requirements are analyzed. The hTEC services are designed such that these requirements are fulfilled. Each service addresses the minimum set of functions that may be needed by a military space operations mission area, and can be run independently, federated as a composed service or linked into a software application. The designed joint military space operations simulation architecture is implemented in a testbed called the extended BSigma.