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Space Missions Trade Space Generation and Assessment Using JPL Rapid Mission Architecture (RMA) Team ApproachThe JPL Rapid Mission Architecture (RMA) capability is a novel collaborative team-based approach to generate new mission architectures, explore broad trade space options, and conduct architecture-level analyses. RMA studies address feasibility and identify best candidates to proceed to further detailed design studies. Development of RMA first began at JPL in 2007 and has evolved to address the need for rapid, effective early mission architectural development and trade space exploration as a precursor to traditional point design evaluations. The RMA approach integrates a small team of architecture-level experts (typically 6-10 people) to generate and explore a wide-ranging trade space of mission architectures driven by the mission science (or technology) objectives. Group brainstorming and trade space analyses are conducted at a higher level of assessment across multiple mission architectures and systems to enable rapid assessment of a set of diverse, innovative concepts. This paper describes the overall JPL RMA team, process, and high-level approach. Some illustrative results from previous JPL RMA studies are discussed.
Document ID
20110015984
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Conference Paper
External Source(s)
Authors
Moeller, Robert C.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Borden, Chester
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Spilker, Thomas
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Smythe, William
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lock, Robert
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 25, 2013
Publication Date
January 4, 2011
Publication Information
Publication: Proceedings of the Aerospace Conference, 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4244-7351-9
Subject Category
Systems Analysis And Operations Research
Report/Patent Number
IEEEAC Paper 1599
Meeting Information
Meeting: Aerospace Conference, 2011
Location: Big Sky, MT
Country: United States
Start Date: March 5, 2011
End Date: March 12, 2011
Sponsors: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
real time systems
architecture level analysis
trade space exploration

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