The laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) is a joint NASA/ESA mission to detect and measure gravitational waves with periods from 1 s to 10000 s. The systems engineering challenges of developing a giant interferometer, 5 million kilometers on a side, are numerous. Some of the key challenges are presented in this paper. The organizational challenges imposed by sharing the engineering function between three centers (ESA ESTEC, NASA GSFC, and JPL) across nine time zones are addressed. The issues and approaches to allocation of the acceleration noise and measurement sensitivity budget terms across a traditionally decomposed system are discussed. Additionally, using LISA to detect gravitational waves for the first time presents significant data analysis challenges, many of which drive the project system design. The approach to understanding the implications of science data analysis on the system is also addressed.


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    Title :

    Engineering the LISA project: systems engineering challenges


    Contributors:
    Evans, J.P. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2006-01-01


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    693119 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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