Pôle spatial CENSUS, Observatoire de Paris, site de Meudon;
https://www.observatoiredeparis.psl.eu/acces-au-site-de-meudon-de-l.html;
Thousands of exoplanets have already been discovered in the last 30 years.
Now, missions are prepared for characterizing them, with, for instance, the spectrometric study of their atmosphere. In order to achieve such highly demanding missions, accurate ephemerids of the exoplanetary transits are needed, which can be achieved with a small cubesat mission. ;
Students participating in this PSL week will use a concurrent engineering approach to prepare the mission. They will take a role as an expert in a given field. Methods and tools have been prepared at CENSUS, the space pole of PSL, and are derived from the methods used in space agencies for preparing major space missions. Through their participation, students will learn the bases of the design and of the organization of a space mission. They will grasp different tools used by experts in space missions (orbitography, attitude control, power management, intervisibility conditions, communication?). They will understand that trade-offs are necessary to achieve the scientific goals.
Implicitly, the basics of system engineering will be given, resulting from the many requirements that the various subsystems of a mission must obey.