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Early Formulation Model-centric Engineering on Nasa's Europa Mission Concept StudyBy leveraging the existing Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) infrastructure at JPL and adding a modest investment, the Europa Mission Concept Study made striking advances in mission concept capture and analysis. This effort has reaffirmed the importance of architecting and successfully harnessed the synergistic relationship of system modeling to mission architecting. It clearly demonstrated that MBSE can provide greater agility than traditional systems engineering methods. This paper will describe the successful application of MBSE in the dynamic environment of early mission formulation, the significant results produced and lessons learned in the process.
Document ID
20140002132
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Bayer, Todd
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Chung, Seung
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Cole, Bjorn
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Cooke, Brian
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Dekens, Frank
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Delp, Chris
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Gontijo, I.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Lewis, Kari
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Moshir, Mehrdad
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Rasmussen, Robert
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Wagner, David
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
March 20, 2014
Publication Date
July 8, 2012
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Mechanical Engineering
Space Sciences (General)
Meeting Information
Meeting: INCOSE International Symposium
Location: Rome, Italy
Country: Italy
Start Date: July 9, 2012
End Date: July 12, 2012
Sponsors: International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) Foundation
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
science mission afforability
early mission formulation
Jupiter Europa Orbiter (JEO) mission

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