WEBVTT 00:08.939 --> 00:11.130 This is so important for tests because 00:11.140 --> 00:13.640 we're testing one of the new satellites 00:13.649 --> 00:15.649 that will be going up into space to 00:15.649 --> 00:18.969 help with all of our GPS systems . Yeah , 00:20.389 --> 00:23.739 it's probably going to affect so many 00:23.750 --> 00:25.694 lives , not just military but also 00:25.694 --> 00:26.694 commercial like . 00:38.919 --> 00:42.830 So this is like one of the newest type 00:42.840 --> 00:45.007 of satellites you could ever see . You 00:45.007 --> 00:47.062 are essentially doing something with 00:47.062 --> 00:49.396 satellite that's never been done before . 00:49.396 --> 00:51.451 Currently GPS users are experiencing 00:51.451 --> 00:54.209 some jamming in the field . So what we 00:54.220 --> 00:56.659 want to test here is what they can do 00:56.669 --> 00:59.250 to counteract all those type of things . 00:59.279 --> 01:01.590 So we were testing some of the jamming 01:01.599 --> 01:03.821 that they might be experiencing and how 01:03.821 --> 01:07.190 best to mitigate those issues here . 01:08.379 --> 01:10.720 We're testing that when the satellite 01:10.730 --> 01:12.930 sends out a signal , we can actually 01:12.940 --> 01:14.884 receive that signal . And it's the 01:14.884 --> 01:16.718 correct one . You don't want the 01:16.718 --> 01:18.940 satellite to send , you , send you back 01:18.940 --> 01:21.051 a signal saying that your house is 10 01:21.051 --> 01:23.218 miles away when it's actually right in 01:23.218 --> 01:25.273 front of you . We're checking all of 01:25.273 --> 01:27.496 that . The bath is large enough and has 01:27.496 --> 01:29.662 enough infrastructure around it . It's 01:29.662 --> 01:31.884 a quiet enough chamber that it protects 01:31.884 --> 01:33.718 the aircraft and other GPS users 01:33.718 --> 01:35.834 outside of the facility . And so we 01:35.845 --> 01:38.067 can't just do this in the open air . We 01:38.067 --> 01:40.401 definitely need to have a shielded area , 01:40.401 --> 01:42.512 make sure that we keep the energy for 01:42.512 --> 01:42.194 our testing inside the building . And 01:42.205 --> 01:44.427 so not only did it need to be big , but 01:44.427 --> 01:46.261 it also needed to be really well 01:46.261 --> 01:48.372 isolated between the test environment 01:48.372 --> 01:50.594 inside and everybody else outside . And 01:50.594 --> 01:52.705 so across the board , the baff really 01:52.705 --> 01:54.705 fit the bill in a way that no other 01:54.705 --> 01:56.705 facility in the United States could 01:58.889 --> 02:01.919 really approaching the very end of our 02:02.389 --> 02:04.550 campaign . And so it's exciting , we 02:04.559 --> 02:06.726 still have a couple more activities to 02:06.726 --> 02:08.726 go . We have thermal vacuum testing 02:08.726 --> 02:10.892 where we will simulate the environment 02:10.892 --> 02:13.115 that the satellite will be operating in 02:13.115 --> 02:15.337 during the year of experimentation . We 02:15.337 --> 02:17.281 also have testing to show that the 02:17.281 --> 02:19.337 ground system is compatible with the 02:19.337 --> 02:21.448 satellite and that we've designed all 02:21.448 --> 02:23.503 the interfaces appropriately and all 02:23.503 --> 02:25.615 the configurations are what they need 02:25.615 --> 02:25.470 to be so that we can do effective 02:25.479 --> 02:27.590 command and control after we launch . 02:27.669 --> 02:29.759 And then after that , it is really a 02:29.770 --> 02:33.110 fairly long campaign of testing for our 02:33.119 --> 02:35.230 operations group . So we have a ready 02:35.230 --> 02:37.286 to train milestone and that training 02:37.286 --> 02:39.240 involves exercises , rehearsals , 02:39.250 --> 02:41.970 tabletop training and making sure that 02:41.979 --> 02:44.146 all of the mission planners and flight 02:44.146 --> 02:46.368 directors and operators and the science 02:46.368 --> 02:48.312 team are all ready to conduct this 02:48.312 --> 02:50.368 experiment after we launch . And the 02:50.368 --> 02:52.850 value of all that is to basically allow 02:52.860 --> 02:56.660 for everything to be synchronized 02:56.669 --> 02:58.502 together , whether it be airline 02:58.502 --> 03:00.759 schedules or whether it be landings and 03:00.770 --> 03:02.992 take offs at the airports or whether it 03:02.992 --> 03:05.990 be military operations . NTS three 03:07.360 --> 03:09.471 is taking that a step farther because 03:09.471 --> 03:11.690 we're using clocks . But we're also 03:11.710 --> 03:14.610 doing a demonstration of advanced 03:14.619 --> 03:18.190 signals and signal flexibility . And 03:18.199 --> 03:20.570 our ability to actually get that job 03:20.580 --> 03:24.110 done is predicated upon testing 03:24.119 --> 03:27.080 facility . Each group here we have us , 03:27.089 --> 03:30.949 Air Force us , Space Force A JPL had a 03:30.960 --> 03:33.589 critical role in the success in testing 03:33.600 --> 03:35.729 this NTS three satellite . So it's 03:35.740 --> 03:38.339 spent countless engineers time and a 03:38.350 --> 03:40.572 lot of engineering effort to figure out 03:40.572 --> 03:43.020 just exactly how to do this testing . 03:43.070 --> 03:46.720 And we ran into so many issues along 03:46.729 --> 03:48.729 the way . But with the team we have 03:48.729 --> 03:50.840 here , we overcame all of them before 03:50.840 --> 03:53.330 rolling it , it was just , it's been 03:53.339 --> 03:56.649 such a great time and these engineers 03:56.660 --> 03:58.869 just blew me away with how much 03:58.880 --> 04:01.830 engineering effort that was done and 04:01.839 --> 04:04.809 get to see all of our hard work done 04:04.820 --> 04:07.639 here and finally get to actually take 04:07.649 --> 04:09.760 all of this data that we've worked so 04:09.760 --> 04:09.929 hard to get .