Session
Session 9: Upcoming Missions
Abstract
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG) is undertaking an undergraduate academic project with a mission to design, develop, and operate a CubeSat-class satellite to test a multispectral sensor prototype, opening the field of space science & technology in Guatemala, developing the country’s human capital, and enabling the independent acquisition of remote sensing data for natural resource management. Throughout the four-year span of this project’s design phase, more than 200 requirements, 70 risks, 220 controlled documents, 150 parts, 330 tasks, and 60 engineering drawings were monitored. Increasing the project complexity, it has to date included over 100 students and volunteers working at different points in time. To increase the odds of mission success, multiple tools and approaches were taken to manage the project’s multiple physical and document components, and are here described. These tools include a Requirement Compliance Matrix, Requirement Verification and Validation Matrix, Risk Matrix, Failure Mode and Effects Analyses, Document Control, Capacitor Control, Parts Control, Material Off-Gassing, Engineering Drawings Architecture and Control, N-Squared Diagram, Structural and Thermal Finite Element Analyses, and Assembly Procedure, to name a few. This manuscript describes what each of these tools entail, how they are used, and their results with respect to Quetzal 1, UVG’s student project.
Guatemala's Remote Sensing CubeSat - Tools and Approaches to Increase the Probability of Mission Success
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG) is undertaking an undergraduate academic project with a mission to design, develop, and operate a CubeSat-class satellite to test a multispectral sensor prototype, opening the field of space science & technology in Guatemala, developing the country’s human capital, and enabling the independent acquisition of remote sensing data for natural resource management. Throughout the four-year span of this project’s design phase, more than 200 requirements, 70 risks, 220 controlled documents, 150 parts, 330 tasks, and 60 engineering drawings were monitored. Increasing the project complexity, it has to date included over 100 students and volunteers working at different points in time. To increase the odds of mission success, multiple tools and approaches were taken to manage the project’s multiple physical and document components, and are here described. These tools include a Requirement Compliance Matrix, Requirement Verification and Validation Matrix, Risk Matrix, Failure Mode and Effects Analyses, Document Control, Capacitor Control, Parts Control, Material Off-Gassing, Engineering Drawings Architecture and Control, N-Squared Diagram, Structural and Thermal Finite Element Analyses, and Assembly Procedure, to name a few. This manuscript describes what each of these tools entail, how they are used, and their results with respect to Quetzal 1, UVG’s student project.
