RIT SPEX Voice of the Customer Eric Reese, Matt Mares, Charles - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

RIT SPEX Voice of the Customer Eric Reese, Matt Mares, Charles Krouse, Charlie Friedman, Anna Jensen, Brendan Parker, Ben Grotton

Overview ● Project Background / Current State of CubeSats ● Stakeholder Summary ● Project Goals ● Objective Tree ● Customer Requirements

Project Background - RIT SPEX RIT Space Exploration, or RIT SPEX for short, aims to accomplish a few major things: 1) Inspire the current and next generation of college and university students to pursue careers in space technology related fields. 2) Develop novel technologies to address the needs of the scientific community and pursue various scientific goals ourselves for research and to sate our interests. 3) Pursue projects with CubeSats, NanoSats, radio telemetry, and high-altitude ballooning.

Project Background - RIT SPEX ● RIT SPEX desires to gain a role in NASA’s CubeSat Launch initiative. ● RIT SPEX has formulated a basis for their vision, but lacks specific guidance for obtaining success based on past projects and best practices

Project Background - CubeSats ● NASA’s CubeSat Launch initiative (CSLI) ● CubeSats are “cheaper,” loaf of bread sized satellites that are designed to be launched and operate as a network.

Project Description - DPL Role Goal: ● Lay out “roadmap” for the RIT SPEX team from now until launch, based on other successful CubeSat projects. Objectives: ● Research project requirements and best practices from other universities ● Create 10 Year plan for RIT SPEX

Stakeholder Summary RIT SPEX Team POC: Anthony Hennig - RIT SPEX President Potential Faculty Advisors: ● Dr. Jennifer Connelly ● Dr. Agammemnon Crassidis ● Dr. Dorin Patru ● Dr. Mihail Barbosu

Objective Tree

Objective Tree Highlights Roadmap to Launch Funding/Manpower Secure spot on NASA Launch R & D Balloon Testing

Customer Requirements

Summary ● Project Background / Current State of CubeSats ● Stakeholder Summary ● Project Goals ● Objective Tree ● Customer Requirements

Questions?

References Works Cited: [1] "CubeSat Launch initiative (CSLI)." NASA, n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. [2] "What Is a Satellite?." NASA, n.d. Web. 6 Feb. 2015. [3] P. M. Swartwout, "CubeSat Database," St. Louis University. [Online]. [Accessed 7 February 2015]. [4] Mission Design Division Staff Ames, "Small Spacecraft Technology State of the Art," 2014.