An OTTER for Responsive Maritime Domain Awareness

Kurzfassung

The presentation "An OTTER for Responsive Maritime Domain Awareness" held at the European Workshop on Maritime Systems Resilience and Security (MARESEC 2023) is a follow up to previously published full-paper "Establishing Responsive Space: A maritime situational awareness experiment" and shows the progress of the small satellite mission OTTER from DLR-RSC³ over the last 8 months of the project. The satellite will detect cooperative vessels via capturing their AIS signals from orbit and verify their position via optical camera. It is presented, that the integration and development of the satellite has been done in a responsive manner, but that challenges in the rocket launch opportunity have occured, that led to a delay of 1 year until the satellite can be launched into orbit. The presentation shows how this delay can effectively be used to the advantage of Responsive Space research, before launch and data acquisition can happen.