Posted on Nov 30, 2015
SPC Dr. Ernest Rockwell
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http://aupress.maxwell.af.mil/digital/pdf/paper/wf_0053_cunningham_militay_payloads_commercial_satellites.pdf

Commercially hosted military payloads (CHMP) is one approach the Space and Missile Systems Center would like to use to accomplish its mission of delivering resilient and affordable space capabilities. A CHMP uses a commercial satellite’s available size, weight, and power to accommodate a military payload. When the military payload requirements and commercial host characteristics match, a CHMP solution can be a cost saving alternative. To date, the Air Force has only contracted one CHMP, with a 21 September 2011 payload launch. The CHMP was a wide field-of-view infrared sensor, known as the commercially hosted infrared payload (CHIRP). The CHIRP demonstrated that a CHMP solution would garner a reduction in cost and schedule.
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SN Greg Wright
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SPC Dr. Ernest Rockwell That's easy. Let private industry do it. SpaceX et al.
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Capt Seid Waddell
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Commercial cost controls.
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SSgt Alex Robinson
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In a word innovation. We must allow people to be creative and find the proper solution to this question.
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