Managing cost and schedule of a project is essential to program success. This article provides program ... managers with best practices and procedures to follow in developing and managing a schedule. It also includes examples of various schedule analysis methods and charts that are commonly used throughout a product's life cycle.
Monte is a NASA JPL Python library with modules for trajectory design, navigation, and control. It was ... designed for interplanetary missions, but is suitable for most Earth orbiting and lunar missions as well. In you are developing a small spacecraft mission under a NASA contract, you could be eligible to license this powerful tool for free. This tool is generally more appropriate for more demanding orbit and trajectory design efforts.
This website provides regularly updated resources and news articles from NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative ... (CSLI). The CubeSat Launch Initiative provides a low-cost pathway to space for smallsats and CubeSats developed by NASA Centers, educational institutions, and non-profits. These government ride-share launches have flown over 100 cubesat missions through the Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) program.
This document discusses the importance of early stress screening on flight hardware to identify latent ... defects to prevent schedule delays and program costs increasing. Pre-unit-level testing is thoroughly discussed and how it can be applied to the MIL-STD-1504E requirement for unit-level thermal testing.