The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission (MAVEN), successfully launched 18 November 2013, will explore the planet's upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind. One of MAVEN's unique circumstances is the fact that it is a Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) flight project. Despite being an international leader in Earth and Space Science Missions, and providing instruments for planetary missions, GSFC has not had the project office in the development of planetary missions. Until the selection of MAVEN as NASA's second Mars Scout, the GSFC Flight Projects Directorate had not had full management responsibility for the development of an entire Mars mission. This paper will focus on the dovetailing of the Spacecraft (S/C) Team's and GSFC's approach to Requirements Management, Verification & Validation, (V&V) and the Ground and Operations test programs.
Changing the paradigm GSFC's Role in the MAVEN mission to Mars lessons learned from the MAVEN MOS/GDS effort
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