Improving Spacecraft Design and Operability for Europa Clipper through High-Fidelity, Mission-Level Modeling and Simulation
Improving Spacecraft Design and Operability for Europa Clipper through High-Fidelity, Mission-Level Modeling and Simulation
- Neue Suche nach: Lawler, C.R.
- Neue Suche nach: Ludwinski, J.M.
- Neue Suche nach: Maldague, P.F.
- Neue Suche nach: Bradley, B.K.
- Neue Suche nach: Wissler, S.S.
- Neue Suche nach: Ferguson, Eric W.
- Neue Suche nach: Lawler, C.R.
- Neue Suche nach: Ludwinski, J.M.
- Neue Suche nach: Maldague, P.F.
- Neue Suche nach: Bradley, B.K.
- Neue Suche nach: Wissler, S.S.
- Neue Suche nach: Ferguson, Eric W.
NASA’s planned Europa Clipper mission seeks to assess the habitability of Jupiter’s moon Europa, which exhibits strong evidence of an ocean of liquid water underneath its icy crust. The sheer number of unique instruments, all of which require quiescent environments in order to operate, compounded with Jupiter’s distance from the Sun and Earth, make this planned mission challenging and resource-constrained. High fidelity, mission-level simulations that model the spacecraft, ground, and environment from launch to end-of-mission with a given trajectory and mission plan have been employed early in the project lifecycle to better understand the interactions between various components of the mission and how design changes impact the entire system. These simulations have already resulted in tangible benefits to the project by providing vital input to key spacecraft trades, assessing impacts to operability, and quantifying how well the scientific objectives of the mission can be achieved. Improvements to simulation performance and to the process by which information defining the system is gathered and built into models used by simulations have the potential to further expand the scope of their use on Europa Clipper and future missions.
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Improving Spacecraft Design and Operability for Europa Clipper through High-Fidelity, Mission-Level Modeling and Simulation
2018-05-28
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