Virtual Space Exercises

Preparing Tomorrow's Space Operators

LSAS space exercise offering provides a collaborative training environment where coordinated exercises expose teams to simulated situations they will likely encounter as they support and participate in real world space domain operations.

Space Exercises

Facilitated game-style training exercises simulating on-orbit operational workflows

Space Domain Exercises

This unique training experience prepares students for situations they may face during real-world space domain activities.

Games are configured with situations where teamed participants may play the parts of protectors or aggressors. Both teams maintain their own objectives while an exercise coordinator oversees and facilitates the entire exercise, with opportunities to inject unanticipated conditions and circumstances which teams must react to or plan against to successfully accomplish the exercise objectives.

Participants must put their space ops knowledge to the test and demonstrate an understanding of ground station tasking, processing orbital tracking data, and strategically planning spacecraft maneuvers to protect their space assets and meet mission objectives. Teams must work together to support common space domain activities such as:

Rendezvous
Counter Space Protection
Avoidance Maneuvering
Tracking/Detection
Etc.

Game Catalog

We maintain a growing catalog of game types, meant to require both operational knowledge and strategic teamwork to claim victory...

Shadow Chase

In this ‘Cat and Mouse’ style game, red and blue teams play the parts of aggressor and defender, respectively. Red team players work together to maintain knowledge of their target satellite and plan maneuvers to maintain their position within a specified distance to their target. The blue team must work to maneuver in ways to maintain a safe separation from their aggressor.

Silent Window

Teams play the role of a spy satellite ‘lurking’ in GEO near their target’s proximity. Ground sensors are able to focus on the high value asset during certain periods of time, during which the spy satellite would be detected. The goal is to move in and out of proximity only when ground sensors are unable to detect your movements. The successful ‘spy’ will be the one who spends the most time next to their target without being caught!

Collision Course

A non-operational piece of space junk is heading right for your satellite! Teams must create a maneuver plan that maximizes their safety from this potential collision while also minimizing fuel. Once the collision has been avoided, teams must then return their satellite to its original orbital
position and formation with its co-planar counterparts. Time is of the essence!

Cloak & Dagger

Red teams must use precise pointing of a ground laser to disable the blue team’s satellite, however the blue team has advanced warning and will try to maneuver out of the area of intended attack between tracking windows, successfully evading their attacker’s attempts. Managing fuel budget and successfully avoiding the attack will result in victory for the blue team.