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Space Systems Engineering Nexus

The Aerospace Corporation is at the forefront of advances in engineering techniques, mission assurance approaches and new ways of ensuring enterprise mission success for space.

 

At its core, Aerospace is an engineering company. Whether it is performing detailed analysis to support successful launch operations or adapting mission assurance practices to proliferated and resilient systems, Aerospace is at the forefront of mission assurance and systems engineering tools, products and services.

Aerospace collaborates across the space enterprise with government, industry, academic and non-profit institutions to advance mission assurance and systems engineering practices. As the only federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) committed exclusively to the space enterprise, we are committed to enterprise integration, interoperability and delivering the mission to the world’s pre-eminent space enterprise. 

Contact us to learn more about how to collaborate for enterprise mission success.

 

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2023 Mission Success Summit: Real Talk, Real Action

Global events require the space enterprise to continuously adjust what to build (capability), when to flex (capacity), and how to innovate. Integrated approaches crafted collaboratively by these stakeholders can achieve outsized success. What are some key next steps for the space enterprise? Aerospace led discussions on these key topics at the 2023 Mission Success Summit - here are the highlights.
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New Mission Success Improvement Workshop Products Available

Access new Mission Success Improvement Workshop (MSIW) and past Mission Assurance Improvement Workshop (MIAW) products in this database. MSIW/MIAW products are government agency and contractor collaborative team efforts to address industry issues and develop best practices recommendations. More products will be added as they become available.
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Outcomes of 2023 Adapting Mission Assurance Workshop

Aerospace and NASA co-sponsored the second annual Adapting Mission Assurance (AMA) mini-conference to bring industry and government mission assurance experts together to discuss the approach to mission assurance for a rapidly changing space domain. Experts developed “calls to action” to focus efforts. Learn more about some of the key takeaways here.
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Getting It Right: Aerospace Debris Forensics Analysis Enabling a More Sustainable Space Environment

From Getting It Right: For nearly 40 years, The Aerospace Corporation has been developing modeling tools to assess energetic on-orbit events, which can threaten the existing satellite population and the long-term usability of Earth's orbit. Astrodynamics forensic analyses gathers known details of such events and estimate unknown parameters to develop theories about the causes of a breakup and predict possible consequences.
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Systems Engineering and Mission Assurance

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