Concurrent Engineering Centers (CECs) are specialized facilities with a goal of generating
and maturing engineering designs by enabling rapid design iterations. This is accomplished …

An Earth smallsat mission architecture is developed to demonstrate the feasibility of
aerocapture. The mission concept proposes to transfer from a geosynchronous transfer orbit …

Planetary bodies such as asteroids, comets, and planetary moons are high-value science
targets as they hold important information about the formation and evolution of our solar …

This article proposes a novel two-staged trajectory planning algorithm toward the
cooperative visual coverage of multiple asteroid sites with the utilization of multiple …

Risk-tolerant platforms such as nanosatellites may be able to accept moderate performance
uncertainty if it enables the reduction of cost or improves manufacturability, in contrast to …

Conceptual‐Design is an early development phase, where innovation and creativeness
shape the future system/product. Model‐Based‐Conceptual‐Design (MBCD) attempts to use …

Established in 1995 in response to NASA's “Faster, Better, Cheaper” era, Team-X was born
from a need to perform rapid space mission design for principal investigator-led competed …

A cube satellite (CubeSat) is an evolving and emerging technology that gives a novice or
advanced researcher relatively affordable access to space research experiments and …

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL's) Architecture Team (A-Team) has nearly a decade
of experience in maturing early formulation mission and technology concepts by combining …

Conceptual design of a product or a system is the preliminary phase of the system's life
cycle. Innovative ideas arise, high-level decisions are made, key technologies are identified …