Document Type

Conference Paper

Journal/Book Title/Conference

2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference

Publisher

IEEE

Location

Big Sky, MT

Publication Date

5-2024

First Page

1

Last Page

16

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License

Abstract

Over the past few years, small satellites have become heavily utilized for both constellations and single vehicle missions. Many organizations have learned how to be successful with these platforms however, while small, they are not simple systems and first-time creators of these systems still suffer high rates of failure. AFRL's Small Satellite Portfolio has established guiding practices/principles for satellite design that help reduce overall mission risk based upon both community and internal lessons learned. These principles help make the design technically resilient and can also help with programmatic execution. This paper will discuss the principles with some detail (such as designing for a tumble, expecting failure) and discuss approaches to risk management to enable fast and nimble execution and communication.

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