Introduction to project work and evaluation of proposed space projects. Design of a spacecraft in a computer
environment. Organization of, and preparation of documents for a Preliminary Design Review (PDR). Oral and written
presentation of the PDR for clients of the project. The client could in the normal case be a project group with
students that work in parallel with the construction of a space instrument, which in principle could be carried by the
spacecraft that is designed in this project.
Outcome:
The student shall obtain knowledge and experience on how a smaller spacecraft can be designed as far as possible
by specifications and where the subsystems of the spacecraft are integrated to a spacecraft in a computer
environment. The student shall acquire an effective work process, including meeting preparations, commitment,
planning, initiative and be able to interact with other students in the working form of concurrent engineering. The
student's design choice must be based on science and proven experience and the solutions must be sufficiently
specified to form a basis for further work with the design process, which must be stated in the report produced as a
result of the work.
