Tradespace analysis for Earth Observation Constellations : a value driven approach

In recent years, the Earth Observation (EO) industry has experienced rapid growth and development, but the tools to analyze EO constellations and space systems are lagging behind the curve. In particular, as costs continue to decrease to the point where constellations are treated like commodities, it is critical to look past cost and towards value creation when designing future EO constellations. In particular, there is an increasing need for value driven tradespace methods that can assist in the development of future EO space systems. Although there exist a few value driven approaches towards EO constellation design, they tend to be non-general and rely on detailed information such as expert knowledge or detailed probability distributions. Due to these limitations and the growing need for value driven trade methods, this thesis presents a new quantitative approach, using a novel Value Function, that can be applied generally to EO constellation trade studies.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Magliarditi, Eric(Eric Andrew)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Olivier de Weck and Afreen Siddiqi.

• Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses may be protected by copyright. Please reuse MIT thesis content according to the MIT Libraries Permissions Policy, which is available through the URL provided.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129133

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/129133