The JPL Rapid Mission Architecture (RMA) capability is a novel collaborative team-based approach to generate new mission architectures, explore broad trade space options, and conduct architecture-level analyses. RMA studies address feasibility and identify best candidates to proceed to further detailed design studies. Development of RMA first began at JPL in 2007 and has evolved to address the need for rapid, effective early mission architectural development and trade space exploration as a precursor to traditional point design evaluations. The RMA approach integrates a small team of architecture-level experts (typically 6-10 people) to generate and explore a wide-ranging trade space of mission architectures driven by the mission science (or technology) objectives. Group brainstorming and trade space analyses are conducted at a higher level of assessment across multiple mission architectures and systems to enable rapid assessment of a set of diverse, innovative concepts. This paper describes the overall JPL RMA team, process, and high-level approach. Some illustrative results from previous JPL RMA studies are discussed.


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    Title :

    Space Missions Trade Space Generation and Assessment Using JPL Rapid Mission Architecture (RMA) Team Approach


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Aerospace Conference, 2011 ; 2011 ; Big Sky, MT, United States



    Publication date :

    2011-01-04



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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