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Collaborative Design Environment for Space Launch Vehicle Design and Optimization

2000

The design of a hypersonic cruise or space launch vehicle is a large undertaking requiring the team effort of many engineers having expertise in the areas of aerodynamics, propulsion, structures, flight control, performance and mass properties. As the design takes shape, specialists are requested to design such things as the crew station, landing gear, interior layout, weapons location, and equipment

CDF as a tool for space engineering master's student collaboration and concurrent design learning

2018

The IDR/UPM Institute (Instituto Universitario de Microgravedad ‘Ignacio da Riva’) established a Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) for space mission design in 2011. This facility is used primarily for academic purposes within the Master in Space Systems (MUSE) 1 organized and managed by IDR/UPM also. This CDF is based on the Open Concurrent Design Tool (OCDT) from ESA, which allowed a group of students from the master to participate in the Concurrent Engineering Challenge organized by ESA Academy in September 2017. Since the early days of this facility, the development of tools and utilities for space mission design has been conducted by aerospace engineering students at IDR/UPM under the direction of professors. At present, MUSE students are programming a new set of models for the main spacecraft subsystems, to analyze space missions beyond Earth. In order to make easier for MUSE students to achieve a proper level of knowledge and experience in Concurrent Design, a frame of cooperat...