Army Cost Efficient Spaceflight Research Experiments and Demonstrations Attitude Determination Experiment

Army Cost Efficient Spaceflight Research Experiments and Demonstrations (ACES RED) is an iterative, periodic flight experiment and demonstration effort to test singular phenomenologies, technologies, and concepts for future (S&T) projects that are directly related to and in support of the United States Army Space S&T Roadmap Programs. The first ACES RED experiment, AR#1, has a main focus to generously expand the available dataset to verify longduration performance as well as mature various commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies that will reduce the cost and complexity while maintaining performance of Army small satellites. AR#1 has a primary focus on attitude determination and control components. The experiment will be mounted on the International Space Station with operation and access to continuous on-orbit data for greater than one year with reliable reference instrumentation.