Summary This stimulating and interactive workshop provides the first systematic review of alternative methods for reducing space mission cost. It compares and contrasts strategies ranging from requirements trades and use of non-space equipment common in small satellites, to concurrent engineering and other techniques applicable to major programs.
Participants learn to look in many, unlikely places to reduce the cost of space missions.
The developers of this workshop spent over four years creating Space Mission Analysis and Design. The book, Reducing Space Mission Cost, and the complete set of course notes are the result of four years of research and assessment by a team of over 50 professionals from all over the world. Instructors Dr. James R. Wertz is the President of Microcosm, a small business that has been specializing in the reduction of space mission cost for over 12 years. He is the co-editor and a principal author of both Space Mission Analysis and Design and Reducing Space Mission Cost. He is editor and principal author of the standard reference work Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control and is editing a 3-volume update, Spacecraft Orbit and Attitude Systems.