Satellite-instrument system engineering best practices and lessons

Carl F. Schueler

doi:10.1117/12.829262

12 August 2009 Satellite-instrument system engineering best practices and lessons

Carl F. Schueler

Proceedings Volume 7458, Remote Sensing System Engineering II; 745807 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.829262
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2009, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper focuses on system engineering development issues driving satellite remote sensing instrumentation cost and schedule. A key best practice is early assessment of mission and instrumentation requirements priorities driving performance trades among major instrumentation measurements: Radiometry, spatial field of view and image quality, and spectral performance. Key lessons include attention to technology availability and applicability to prioritized requirements, care in applying heritage, approaching fixed-price and cost-plus contracts with appropriate attention to risk, and assessing design options with attention to customer preference as well as design performance, and development cost and schedule. A key element of success either in contract competition or execution is team experience. Perhaps the most crucial aspect of success, however, is thorough requirements analysis and flowdown to specifications driving design performance with sufficient parameter margin to allow for mistakes or oversights - the province of system engineering from design inception to development, test and delivery.

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Carl F. Schueler "Satellite-instrument system engineering best practices and lessons", Proc. SPIE 7458, Remote Sensing System Engineering II, 745807 (12 August 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.829262

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