COOP

COOP [Microsat Systems]

COOP target objects [Microsat Systems]

COOP (Calibrated Orbiting Objects Project) is a Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Program to demonstrate techniques to improve discrimination capability and reduce countermeasures susceptibility. MicroSat Systems has created an innovative and low cost core bus design to support a space based-microsatellite target system. The simulated re-entry vehicle and decoys will fly in an orbit meant to emulate threat trajectories.

MicroSat Systems is developing the core spacecraft system, for which first intended use will be a flight mission incorporating a target simulation payload that will send down encrypted truth data to validate the data acquired using the Ballistic Missile Defense system.