Collaborative Mission Design at NASA Langley Research Center

Gough, Kerry M.; Allen, B. Danette; Amundsen, Ruth M.

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Collaborative Mission Design at NASA Langley Research Center

dc.contributor.author	Gough, Kerry M.	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Allen, B. Danette	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Amundsen, Ruth M.	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Langley Research Center	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Space Systems Design Lab	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2006-01-17T21:39:13Z	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2006-03-03T20:57:14Z
dc.date.available	2006-01-17T21:39:13Z	en_US
dc.date.available	2006-03-03T20:57:14Z
dc.date.issued	2005-11-09	en_US
dc.description	This conference features the work of authors from: Georgia Tech’s Space Systems Design Lab, Aerospace Systems Design Lab, School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech Research Institute; NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Marshall Space Flight Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Langley Research Center; and other aerospace industry and academic institutions	en_US
dc.description.abstract	NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) has developed and tested two facilities dedicated to increasing efficiency in key mission design processes, including payload design, mission planning, and implementation plan development, among others. The Integrated Design Center (IDC) is a state-of-the art concurrent design facility which allows scientists and spaceflight engineers to produce project designs and mission plans in a real-time collaborative environment, using industry-standard physics-based development tools and the latest communication technology. The Mission Simulation Lab (MiSL), a virtual reality (VR) facility focused on payload and project design, permits engineers to quickly translate their design and modeling output into enhanced three-dimensional models and then examine them in a realistic full-scale virtual environment. The authors were responsible for envisioning both facilities and turning those visions into fully operational mission design resources at LaRC with multiple advanced capabilities and applications. In addition, the authors have created a synergistic interface between these two facilities. This combined functionality is the Interactive Design and Simulation Center (IDSC), a “meta-facility” which offers project teams a powerful array of highly advanced tools, permitting them to rapidly produce project designs while maintaining the integrity of the input from every discipline expert on the project. The concept-to-flight mission support provided by IDSC has shown improved inter- and intra-team communication and a reduction in the resources required for proposal development, requirements definition, and design effort.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	AIAA Space Systems Technical Committee ; AIAA Space Transportation Systems Technical Committee ; Space Technology Advanced Research Center	en_US
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/8020
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	SSEC05 Session A;GT-SSEC.A.3	en_US
dc.subject	Concept-to-flight design	en_US
dc.subject	Payload design	en_US
dc.subject	Mission planning	en_US
dc.subject	Design facilities	en_US
dc.title	Collaborative Mission Design at NASA Langley Research Center	en_US
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local.contributor.corporatename	Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL)
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