Mission design and operations

How a mission goes from a science question to flying hardware, and what happens after launch.

Scope

• Science traceability and requirements definition
• Mission phases and the concept of operations
• Trajectory and launch window selection
• Cost classes and the proposal process
• Operations, anomaly response and extended missions

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.