Archives: Glossary Terms

A dedicated approach to designDesign is an intricate process involving reviewing constraints, identifying and characterizing the mission subject, deriving the payloadAn assembly of spacecraft components that collect, process, store, and transmit payload-mission and bus-housekeeping data. The communication and data-handling subsystem (CDHS) acts as the ears, brain, and mouth of the spacecraft • It has two primary portions — communication and data handling • It translates raw data from the payloads and subsystems into useful information and sends it to the ground system • Commands from ground controllers generally request information from and give specific instructions to individual subsystems More and orbital requirements, determining spacecraft mass, powerOrbiting spacecraft periodically pass through Earth’s shadow (enter eclipse). During these eclipse periods, the incident solar energy drops to zero, and the solar cells stop producing power. More and other detailed designDesign is an intricate process involving reviewing constraints, identifying and characterizing the mission subject, deriving the payload and orbital requirements, determining spacecraft mass, power and other detailed design requirements, identifying potential launch vehicles, deriving operations systems requirements and iterating. More requirements, identifying potential launch vehicles, deriving operations systems requirements and iterating. More spacecraft that we can build. It focuses on the types of […]

A process of making hardware easier to build and assemble by planning for manufacturing from the beginning of a mission. When engineers include manufacturing technicians in the mission planning activities, then the designDesign is an intricate process involving reviewing constraints, identifying and characterizing the mission subject, deriving the payloadAn assembly of spacecraft components that collect, process, store, and transmit payload-mission and bus-housekeeping data. The communication and data-handling subsystem (CDHS) acts as the ears, brain, and mouth of the spacecraft • It has two primary portions — communication and data handling • It translates raw data from the payloads and subsystems into useful information and sends it to the ground system • Commands from ground controllers generally request information from and give specific instructions to individual subsystems More and orbital requirements, determining spacecraft mass, […]

A process of managing a space mission while strictly holding to the budget constraint. When budgets are tight, we designDesign is an intricate process involving reviewing constraints, identifying and characterizing the mission subject, deriving the payloadAn assembly of spacecraft components that collect, process, store, and transmit payload-mission and bus-housekeeping data. The communication and data-handling subsystem (CDHS) acts as the ears, brain, and mouth of the spacecraft • It has two primary portions — communication and data handling • It translates raw data from the payloads and subsystems into useful information and sends it to the ground system • Commands from ground controllers generally request information from and give specific instructions to individual subsystems More and orbital requirements, determining spacecraft mass, powerOrbiting spacecraft periodically pass through Earth’s shadow (enter eclipse). During these eclipse periods, the incident solar energy drops to zero, and the solar cells stop producing power. More and other detailed designDesign is an intricate process involving reviewing constraints, identifying and characterizing the mission subject, deriving the payload and orbital requirements, determining spacecraft mass, power and other detailed design requirements, identifying potential launch vehicles, deriving operations systems requirements and iterating. More requirements, identifying potential launch vehicles, deriving operations systems […]