Applied Defense Solutions (ADS), now L3 ADS after being acquired by L3 Technologies, is an aerospace engineering and software development company specializing in space situational awareness. They provide space systems mission planning, space exploration, and satellite operations support, including protection and resiliency services to the intelligence community, DoD, and NASA. ADS builds innovative flight dynamics and mission planning software systems that automate trajectory design, maneuver planning, orbit determination, collision assessment and avoidance. Key keywords include: aerospace engineering, software development, space situational awareness, mission planning, and satellite operations.
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One of the Blue Canyon-built smallsats is identified as S5, a 60-kilogram satellite designed to perform a space situational awareness mission using a payload provided by Applied Defense Solutions.
Applied Defense Solutions received a Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 award from the Air Force in 2017 for a project called Small Satellite System for Space Surveillance.
The Applied Defense Solutions SBIR Phase 2 project calls for using a 30-centimeter telescope paired with a mission operations concept for detecting and tracking objects near the geosynchronous belt.
Applied Defense Solutions was acquired in July (previous year) by L3 Technologies for approximately $50,000,000.
L3 Technologies purchased Applied Defense Solutions of Columbia, Maryland for approximately $50,000,000 in July.