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Venus Explorer Mission Concept of Operations Examples

Venus Explorer Mission Concept of Operations Examples. Spring 2014. Innovative System Project for the Increased Recruitment of Emerging STEM Students. Outline. ConOps Defined ConOps Checklist Explaining ConOps (examples) Text Pictures Wrap-Up. Concept of Operations.

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Venus Explorer Mission Concept of Operations Examples

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  1. Venus Explorer MissionConcept of Operations Examples Spring 2014 Innovative System Project for the Increased Recruitment of Emerging STEM Students

  2. Outline • ConOps Defined • ConOps Checklist • Explaining ConOps (examples) • Text • Pictures • Wrap-Up

  3. Concept of Operations • A description of how the system will be operated during the mission phases in order to meet stakeholder expectations • Mission Phase: period of time, during which, the circumstances of your payload remain fairly constant (i.e., not much changes for your payload during a “phase” of the mission)

  4. ConOps Checklist • Word document on Downloads page • Asks you many questions about how your payload will operate/function • Divided into main “phases” for typical payloads • Initial Conditions • Deployment • Measurements • Sending Data • “other” • Go through the questions, as best as you know right now.

  5. Example ConOps • Lunar Probes • Concept 1: Penetrator • A penetrator is released from the orbiter • It falls toward the surface, accelerating with gravity • It impacts the surface and buries itself • It takes measurements of heat flow from the inside of the moon, outward, along the length of the penetrator • Concept 2: Surface Probe • A spherical probe is released from the orbiter • It falls toward the surface, accelerating with gravity • It impacts the surface, but does not bury itself • Instead, it bounces/skips and comes to rest after a longer distance • It then measures surface temperatures

  6. Example ConOps:Lunar Probes Penetrating the Surface Remaining on the Surface Not to Scale

  7. Example ConOps:Lunar Probe • The penetrator impacts the surface, and buries itself • Temperature measurements are taken along the length of the penetrator • Changes in temperature indicate heat flow T Dy T Dy T Dy D T Dy T Dy T Not to Scale

  8. ConOps: Wrap Up • USE THE CONOPS CHECK LIST!!! • Divide your mission into “phases” based on when things “change” for your payload • Explain what happens before, during, and at the end of each phase • PICTURES PICTURES PICTURES • Practice explaining this to someone not in the class – do they understand it? • Did we mention PICTURES???

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