Session
Technical Session I: Production
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
Producing 100 of anything in 1 year is not considered high volume in most businesses, but in the satellite manufacturing world it is, even if those satellites are 3U cubesats. The additional complications of a variable launch schedule and the need to launch the latest hardware drives a need for a robust but agile process. As with everything at Spire we are addressing this problem with an iterative approach to the 4 main requirements. These are not serially dependant steps, but a group of parallel iterations.
SmallSat Manufacturing; The Spire "Constant NPI" Model
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Producing 100 of anything in 1 year is not considered high volume in most businesses, but in the satellite manufacturing world it is, even if those satellites are 3U cubesats. The additional complications of a variable launch schedule and the need to launch the latest hardware drives a need for a robust but agile process. As with everything at Spire we are addressing this problem with an iterative approach to the 4 main requirements. These are not serially dependant steps, but a group of parallel iterations.
