Course Description
Science Mission Systems Design and Operations (APPEL-SMSDO)
Audience
This course is designed for NASA’s technical workforce, including engineers, systems engineers and project personnel involved in creating overall mission architectures, detailed design and the operation of systems.
Goal
When asked what participants learned that would be most beneficial to their work, they said…
"Knowing the process end-to-end and that it is fairly reliable is really valuable for reviewing others conceptual reality checks."
—ARC, 2007
This three-day course provides an integrated view of space science mission design and operations from conceptual design and requirements definition, through spacecraft design, development, and test, to development of mission operations concepts and ground infrastructure capabilities.
Learning Methods
Learning will be enhanced through lectures, group discussions, videos, demonstrations and multiple team activities applying previous material to a NASA mission.
Specific Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define the components and systems of a robotic space mission.
- Describe an integrated view of space science mission design and operations.
- Describe the interrelationships between systems design and mission operations.
- Describe a process-oriented approach for creating cost-effective space missions.
- Apply effective methodologies for translating space mission objectives, requirements, and designs into viable and economical operations concepts.
- Demonstrate practical, detailed ideas and tools to analyze and design space segment support for unmanned missions, including architecture and configuration, payloads, and vehicle subsystems.
