November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 1/6 Space Systems Modeling and Design Mike Gruntman Space Systems Modeling and Design Mike Gruntman Department of Astronautical Engineering Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California Los Angeles, California

November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 2/6 Space Systems Modeling and Design Mike Gruntman Background – USC Astronautics – Department Established as Astronautics and Space Technology Division in 2004 “to take full advantage of growing opportunities in space” –founding Chairman (2004–2007) –history, rational, development – in AIAA , downloadable from Operated as a department from 2004 Built upon astronautical specialization, started in 1995 Followed standard process in building a new department in a university (degree approval, course development, student affairs,...) Responsible for programs in space engineering in USC Established a full set of degrees, including a large nationally-prominent Master’s degree program Department of Astronautical Engineering since July 2010

November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 3/6 Space Systems Modeling and Design Mike Gruntman Background – USC Astronautics – Education & Faculty Unique pure-space-engineering department Offers the full set of degrees in Astronautical Engineering (ASTE)  Bachelor of Science  Bachelor of Science Minor  Master of Science  Engineer  PhD  Graduate Certificate Among largest national programs in space engineering 4 tenured faculty + several joint appointments and research faculty; ~20 adjunct faculty and part-time lecturers Nationally prominent MS Program Student reach Through DEN

November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 4/6 Space Systems Modeling and Design Mike Gruntman Background – USC Astronautics – Research Astronautics Space missions and space systems Space environment and spacecraft interactions Space science, instrumentation and sensors Spacecraft propulsion Space mission and spacecraft design Non-equilibrium processes in gases and plasmas Computational physics and high performance computing Faculty were/are PI’s and Co-I’s on programs supported by NASA, Air Force, Navy, NSF, industry Science team member/investigator/development: Pioneer 10/11, SOHO, Deep Space 1, IMAGE, Dawn Current NASA missions Co-I: TWINS and IBEX Student (undergraduate) projects  Sounding rocket  Lunar lander  Student microsatellite  International Student Satellite

November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 5/6 Space Systems Modeling and Design Mike Gruntman Space Systems – Relevant Experience Key participant in effort in (jointly with ISI) to advance satellite- related technologies for national security space Closely interacted with SMC and Aerospace and engaged other gov’t Part of the vision: to establish a Space Mission Development Center (SMDC), with heavy student participation Simplified version of Aerospace’s CDC and JPL’s Team-X –Education of students in astronautics and system engineering –Serve as testbed for new tools and concepts Mission concept (preliminary) design for outside customers Never implemented or tried Co-I – two current NASA missions Interaction with Team-X and CDC Numerous (simplified) space missions (paper) designed by senior students ( ) Graduate course in Spacecraft Design – perhaps largest in the U.S. (1000+ in 8 years); also short courses for industry and gov’t

November 19, 2010 USC Astronautics – USC/VSOE 6/6 Space Systems Modeling and Design Mike Gruntman Space Mission Development Center very much the area of interests Great educational and training tool Testbed for development of new tools and concepts Possibility to expand to R&D, in cooperation with systems engineering and others Possibility of providing mission design for outside customers Does not require significant hardware resources/investment Can be operated on campus as ITAR compliant – most astronautics students are U.S. citizens or greencards (U.S. persons)