FSS Forecast - APRSAF

Hosted Payloads Offer Mission Diversity andRisk ReductionRisk reduction through :– Commercial space acquisition best practice• Disciplined approach to technical risk assessment during requirementsphase• Commercial schedule discipline during build– Combined government system/hosted payload system design• Opportunity for shared system approach distributed across governmentand commercial capabilities: distributed networks• Hedge against dedicated government system losses– Ability to incrementally introduce new technologies in space• Example: IRIS, first geosynchronous IP Router, launched as hostedpayload on IS-14– Rapidly actionable solutions for acute government space needs27