space systems modeling and design
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Space Systems Modeling and Design. Mike Gruntman Department of Astronautical Engineering Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California Los Angeles, California. Background – USC Astronautics – Department. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 1/6
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Space Systems Modeling and Design
Mike GruntmanDepartment of Astronautical Engineering
Viterbi School of EngineeringUniversity of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 2/6
[email protected] Systems Modeling and DesignMike Gruntman
Background – USC Astronautics – Department
• Established as Astronautics and Space Technology Division in 2004 “to take full advantage of growing opportunities in space”
– founding Chairman (2004–2007)
– history, rational, development – in AIAA-2007-6042, downloadable from http://astronauticsnow.com/SpaceEducation/
• Operated as a department from 2004
• Built upon astronautical specialization, started in 1995
• Followed standard process in building a new department in a university (degree approval, course development, student affairs, ...)
• Responsible for programs in space engineering in USC
• Established a full set of degrees, including a large nationally-prominent Master’s degree program
• Department of Astronautical Engineering since July 2010
November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 3/6
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Background – USC Astronautics – Education & Faculty
• Unique pure-space-engineering department• Offers the full set of degrees in
Astronautical Engineering (ASTE) Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Science Minor Master of Science Engineer PhD Graduate Certificate
• Among largest national programs in space engineering
• 4 tenured faculty + several joint appointments and research faculty; ~20 adjunct faculty and part-time lecturers
Nationally prominent MS Program
Student reachThrough DEN
November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 4/6
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Background – USC Astronautics – Research
• Astronautics• Space missions and space systems• Space environment and spacecraft interactions• Space science, instrumentation and sensors• Spacecraft propulsion• Space mission and spacecraft design• Non-equilibrium processes in gases and plasmas• Computational physics and high performance computing
• Faculty were/are PI’s and Co-I’s on programs supported by NASA, Air Force, Navy, NSF, industry
• Science team member/investigator/development:Pioneer 10/11, SOHO, Deep Space 1, IMAGE, Dawn
• Current NASA missions Co-I: TWINS and IBEX
• Student (undergraduate) projects Sounding rocket Lunar lander Student microsatellite International Student Satellite
November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 5/6
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Space Systems – Relevant Experience
• Key participant in effort in 2003-2007 (jointly with ISI) to advance satellite-related technologies for national security space
• Closely interacted with SMC and Aerospace and engaged other gov’t
• Part of the vision: to establish a Space Mission Development Center (SMDC), with heavy student participation
• Simplified version of Aerospace’s CDC and JPL’s Team-X
– Education of students in astronautics and system engineering
– Serve as testbed for new tools and concepts
• Mission concept (preliminary) design for outside customers
Never implemented or tried
• Co-I – two current NASA missions• Interaction with Team-X and CDC• Numerous (simplified) space missions (paper)
designed by senior students (1998-2004)• Graduate course in Spacecraft Design –
perhaps largest in the U.S. (1000+ in 8 years);also short courses for industry and gov’t
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Space Mission Development Center
Space Mission Development Center
• very much the area of interests• Great educational and training tool• Testbed for development of new tools
and concepts• Possibility to expand to R&D, in
cooperation with systems engineering and others
• Possibility of providing mission design for outside customers
• Does not require significant hardware resources/investment
• Can be operated on campus as ITAR compliant – most astronautics students are U.S. citizens or greencards (U.S. persons)