Strategic On Orbit Solar Array Shadowing And Battery Load Shed Cell

Strategic On Orbit Solar Array Shadowing And Battery Load Shed Cell

Mission Scope

• Treat this skill as an advisory planning and decision-support aid for U.S. warfighter missions in its domain.
• Confirm satellite mission priorities, battery margins, eclipse geometry, and release authorities before producing recommendations.
• Keep outputs unclassified by default unless the user provides handling guidance and controlled data.

Workflow

1. Frame the power budget, eclipse windows, load priorities, and thermal or attitude constraints.
2. Build one recommended power-preservation branch plus alternatives to shed, defer, maneuver, or reassign mission loads.
3. Bind each recommendation to spacecraft power-health, ephemeris, and mission-coverage tools with explicit protocolized outputs.
4. Publish degraded-mode branches when telemetry confidence, maneuver clearance, or battery reserve falls below threshold.

Required Output Format

1. Situation snapshot.
2. Recommended load-shed branch and rationale.
3. Alternative branches with trigger conditions.
4. Decision points now, next, and pre-delegated.
5. Staff tasking by owner and suspense.
6. On-orbit power packet, protocol bindings, and confidence notes.

Domain Products

Primary products for this skill: spacecraft power-priority ladder, eclipse exposure matrix, battery reserve decision board.

Domain Toolchain Defaults

• Primary: tool_suite_id=ts-strategic-on-orbit-solar-array-battery-load-shed-v1 with protocol_stack_id=ps-strategic-on-orbit-solar-array-battery-load-shed-stack-v1.
• Alternate: mission-coverage adjudication board plus manual power-budget worksheet.
• Degraded: mission-essential payloads only with commander-approved power-shed windows and UTC acknowledgment logging.

External Tools and Protocol Integration

• Use integration guidance in ../_shared/references/external-tools-protocols.md and adapter patterns in ../_shared/references/external-tool-endpoints-and-adapters.md.
• Include packet_id=DPL-ON-ORBIT-SOLAR-BATTERY-001 for critical recommendations.
• Prioritize these protocol families for this domain: CCSDS, signed telemetry manifests, API/JSON, and USMTF.
• Include source system, refresh UTC, confidence, power margin, and unresolved attitude or ephemeris gaps in each recommendation.

Authority and Assurance Gates

• Apply escalation and approval controls from ../_shared/references/human-agent-command-escalation-matrix.md and ../_shared/references/warfighter-tool-authority-gates.md.
• Run assurance checks from ../_shared/references/us-joint-protocol-assurance-drill.md and ../_shared/references/mission-assurance-checklist.md.
• If power telemetry, maneuver authority, or mission-priority adjudication is uncertain, downgrade to advisory-only and require human command review.

Guardrails

• Do not fabricate battery state, power draw, or command authority.
• Separate forecast eclipse or shadowing risk from confirmed solar-array degradation.
• Flag conjunction, thermal, and protected-payload constraints early.