{"title":"Status of CHIPS: A NASA university explorer astronomy mission","authors":"W. Marchant, Ellen Riddle Taylor","doi":"10.1109/AERO.2002.1035329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2002.1035329","url":null,"abstract":"In the age of `Faster, Better, Cheaper', NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has been looking for a way to implement university based world class science missions for significantly less money. The University Explorer (UNEX) program is the result. UNEX missions are designed for rapid turnaround with fixed budgets in the $10 million US dollar range. The CHIPS project was selected in 1998. The CHIPS mission has passed the Concept Study and Confirmation Reviews. Many lessons have already been learned from the CHIPS UNEX project. This paper will discuss the early issues surrounding the use of commercial satellite constellations as the bus and the politics of small satellites using foreign launchers. The difficulties of finding a spacecraft in the UNEX price range will be highlighted. The advantages of utilizing Internet technologies from the earliest phases of the project through to communications with the spacecraft on orbit will be discussed. The current state of the program, as of July 2001, will be summarized and the project's plans for the future will be charted.","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122468380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial: The End of J.RSMC","authors":"J. Wertz","doi":"10.1023/A:1022495609111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022495609111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130196659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beacon Monitoring: Reducing the Cost of Nominal Spacecraft Operations","authors":"C. Kitts, M. Swartwout","doi":"10.1023/A:1022456900121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022456900121","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"204 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124581639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Victor Wiendels, B. Zandbergen, R. V. van Baaren, K. Smit
{"title":"Cost Engineering Delfi – Investigation regarding cost engineering in small satellite development","authors":"Victor Wiendels, B. Zandbergen, R. V. van Baaren, K. Smit","doi":"10.1023/A:1022486014434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022486014434","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126040832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Launch cost reduction by the reuse of the core stage of Ariane 5","authors":"J. Buursink","doi":"10.1023/A:1012068017876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012068017876","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133386145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design-to-Cost Applied Within an Integrated System Model","authors":"A. Vollerthun","doi":"10.1023/A:1012090604546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012090604546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132160244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microsatellites And Improved Acquisition Of Space Systems","authors":"M. Bille, R. Kane, D. Cox","doi":"10.1023/A:1012289631336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012289631336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"264 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133596705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modularity and Spacecraft Cost","authors":"J. Enright, C. Jilla, David W. Miller","doi":"10.1023/A:1009901316459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009901316459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"55 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128356842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cost-driven design of small satellite remote sensing systems*","authors":"M. Fouquet, J. Ward","doi":"10.1023/A:1009917804847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009917804847","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125726313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) Systems Engineering Effort – A successful exercise in cheaper, faster and (hopefully) better systems engineering","authors":"A. Abramovici","doi":"10.1023/A:1009918213987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009918213987","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":174943,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123577455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}