A Mission Design Lab (MDL) session is typically scheduled for one five-day week. During the study, each system/subsystem prepares material that addresses the requirements, baseline design, alternative designs & trade studies, functional diagrams, interfaces, detailed estimates of mass, power, and data rate, technical risk assessment, issues/concerns, recommendations, models, parametric/grassroots costs, and background information.
MDL's Discipline Engineering Team provides mission systems expertise across a very broad spectrum, including:
| Attitude Control |
Avionics |
| Communictions |
Costing |
| Flight Dynamics |
Flight Software |
| Formation/Rendezvous |
Formation Flying |
| Ground Systems
| Integration & Test |
| Launch Vehicles
| Mechanical |
| Mission Operations
| On-Orbit Servicing |
| Orbital Debris
| Power |
| Propulsion
| Radiation |
| Reliability
| Systems |
| Technology Assessment
| Thermal |
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