Session
Technical Session IIA: Management, Manufacturing, And Risk Mitigation
Abstract
This paper describes an integrated, comprehensive tools for analysis of environmental related spacecraft hazards for use in spacecraft analysis and design, mission planning and operations. This analysis is extremely important for small satellites since they are often at higher risk due to a number of physical, economic and operational constraints. These constraints may limit the ability to mitigate the natural and man-made hazards resulting from the space environments the satellite will be operating in. The SEAT software tool addresses hazards and effects related to solar activity, magnetic fields, radiation. thermal exposure, impact from small particles, plasma and neutral atmosphere exposure. SEAT is integrated with a commercial-off-the-shelf orbit analysis package. It is designed to be useable by spacecraft engineers and operators who may not have expertise in space environmental effects and their analysis.
An Integrated Space Environment Analysis Tool (SEAT)
This paper describes an integrated, comprehensive tools for analysis of environmental related spacecraft hazards for use in spacecraft analysis and design, mission planning and operations. This analysis is extremely important for small satellites since they are often at higher risk due to a number of physical, economic and operational constraints. These constraints may limit the ability to mitigate the natural and man-made hazards resulting from the space environments the satellite will be operating in. The SEAT software tool addresses hazards and effects related to solar activity, magnetic fields, radiation. thermal exposure, impact from small particles, plasma and neutral atmosphere exposure. SEAT is integrated with a commercial-off-the-shelf orbit analysis package. It is designed to be useable by spacecraft engineers and operators who may not have expertise in space environmental effects and their analysis.
