Course Content
- Fundamentals of Spacecraft Design
- Principles and tools of Systems Engineering
- Vehicle-level Design
- Systems-level Estimation
- Component Detailed Design
- Crew Systems
- Space Physiology
- Human Factors and Habitability
- Life Support Systems Design
- Radiation Effects and Mitigation
- Loads, Structures, and Mechanisms
- Loads Estimation
- Structural Design and Analysis
- Mechanisms Design
- Power, Propulsion, and Thermal Analysis
- Power System Design
- Proulsion System Design
- Avionics and Software
- Attitude Dynamics/Proximity Operations
- Data Management Systems
- Communications
- Guidance, Navigation, and Control
- Special Lectures about this year’s Design Projects
Student Work
- One problem set for each of first 8 lectures (about systems design)
- One problem set for each component design section
- First 10 problem sets (and all information from prior classes) is fair game for the midterm
- Everything in this class and others is fair game for the final