- Lecture Class (18h) + Tutorial Class (12h): 30h
- Description:
- This course aims at teaching to the students what is a space system and how the requirements and the constraints of a mission orient the design of a spacecraft.
- After a fair recall of the spatial mechanics notions, we will describe several types of missions and their typical constraints.
- Then we will explain the notions of system engineering : requirements, specifications, verification, trade-offs, management and allocation of technical margins depending on the project maturity …
- Then, we will focus on the different types of equipment onboard satellites and learn what are its different functional chains : monitoring & control, data handling, AOCS, mechanical & thermal architecture, power, propulsion, RF chain.
- The course will end with two working sessions in small teams. These working sessions will permit the students to design themselves two space systems (one on an interplanetary mission and the other on a telecommunication system).
Teachers : R. Clédassou and L. Boisnard (CNES)
