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Systems Engineering Process of a CubeSat from the Perspective of Operations
Author(s) -
Arnaut Bruno Morato,
Viot Diego Dutra,
Costa Lucas Lopes,
Loureiro Geilson,
Bürger Eduardo Escobar,
Franchitto Marcelo
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2013.tb03031.x
Subject(s) - cubesat , systems engineering , process (computing) , engineering , product lifecycle , engineering management , computer science , new product development , aerospace engineering , management , satellite , operating system , economics
This paper presents the application of a systems concurrent engineering approach to university CubeSats development. The university CubeSat, object of this paper, is a joint development between the Brazilian Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA). The effort consists in developing a Brazilian CubeSat platform that can be industrialized in Brazil and takes advantage of a Systems Engineering Process approach. This Systems Engineering Process applied on the CubeSat includes mission and life‐cycle analysis, requirements engineering, functional analysis, architecture design, and uses an operation life‐cycle scenario as an example. The approach is supposed to be applied to every life‐cycle process. Thus, System Engineering Process gives a wide range view of the problem, guiding engineers to develop product and organization solutions throughout life‐cycle. This approach helps to solve technical and management issues that sometimes are not encompassed with just experienced staff and standard methods.