Objectivity Database Used to Build Comprehensive Space Object Catalog

Objectivity, Inc. announced today that its flagship product, Objectivity/DB, is being used in the Space Situational Awareness Foundational Enterprise (SSAFE) program to build a comprehensive catalog of space objects that will be used by the U.S. Air Force to increase situational awareness and manage collision avoidance.

Since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, tracking space debris for collision avoidance and human flight safety has become a top priority for government space agencies. NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office estimates that there are more than 215,000 objects larger than one centimeter in size currently in orbit, and these numbers will continue to increase as new spacecraft are launched.

Using Objectivity/DB, U.S. Air Force personnel will be able to track these objects in real-time, so that decisions about spacecraft placement and collision avoidance can be made in seconds, rather than hours or days. Objectivity/DB will also allow the system to scale nearly infinitely as the catalog grows larger.

As the system engineer to the Air Force, The MITRE Corporation prototyped the use of Objectivity/DB to demonstrate the advantages of a distributed database that allows concurrent data access for a higher aggregate throughput and scalable features to accommodate mission growth.

The system that MITRE prototyped will be passed to Lockheed Martin. As systems integrator, Lockheed Martin will install and maintain the SSAFE system at the Joint Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

About MITRE

The MITRE Corporation is a not-for-profit organization chartered to work in the public interest. As a national resource, it applies its expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts, and enterprise modernization to address its sponsors’ critical needs.

MITRE manages three Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs): one for the Department of Defense (known as the DoD Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence FFRDC), one for the Federal Aviation Administration (the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development), and one for the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the Center for Enterprise Modernization).

About Objectivity, Inc.

Objectivity, Inc. is the leading provider of distributed, real-time, SOA-enabled database management solutions for mission-critical applications. The company’s flagship product, Objectivity/DB, is used by government, security, complex manufacturing, commercial services, science, and engineering organizations to increase speed, precision and productivity.

Objectivity, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Please contact us by visiting www.objectivity.com or calling 408-992-7100. A 60-day free trial of Objectivity/DB is available on the website, and Objectivity also provides free web-based Object Database Training Courses.

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