Course Description
Space Launch and Transportation Systems (APPEL-SLTS)
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…
"The overall design of SLTS. This will provide me with a better understanding and give me a better foundation to support future projects"
— Comfort Inn & Suites, Cocoa Beach, FL, 2007
"I was looking for a general presentation pulling together what I had picked up here and there. This fit the bill exactly."
—JPL-Woodbury Buildings, 2007
This three-day course is intended to provide practical, detailed approaches and tools to analyze and design manned and unmanned and reusable and expendable launch vehicles for Earth and other planets. This includes architecture and configuration, payloads and vehicle subsystems.
Learning Methods
Lecture, discussion, group exercises, videos, and physical examples will increase your understanding of space launch and transportation systems.
Specific Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify practical tools and processes for the analysis and design of manned and unmanned, reusable and expendable vehicles for Earth and other planets.
- Describe a process-oriented approach for creating cost-effective space launch and transportation systems to meet broad, often poorly defined requirements.
- Apply effective methodologies for translating SLTS objectives, requirements, and designs into viable and economical operations concepts.
- Explain the components of space launch and transportation systems design and operations.
- Define the parameters for evaluating the lifecycle cost of space launch and transportation systems.
- Identify technical risks and mitigate them in the most cost-effective manner while maintaining the technical integrity of the vehicle(s) and infrastructure.
- Describe launch operations functions that must be performed.
- Describe the interrelationships and tradeoffs between system design and mission operations.
