Especially the systems engineering aspect in the education of engineers has been found not to be represented sufficiently in academic programs. One of the purposes of this workshop is to provide a practical approach to systems engineering and contribute to the training in this field. The results of the workshop are valuable input for studies at IRS as well as ongoing work at ESA and international groups.
When following the development and evolution of the Space Station Design Workshop in the last few years, you should have noticed the emergence of the design tasks beyond low Earth orbit and typical space station activities, but involving many aspects of human space exploration like transportation and staging to new destinations. Likewise, the methodology and tools involved have been extended and updated, allowing the SSDW for the first time to investigate human presence on another planetary body, our Moon.
Returning to our home campus at Stuttgart University, the SSDW team introduced an even more challenging task to the interdisciplinary and international participants. Out of a significantly larger pool of applications, 31 students and young professionals were invited to the SSDW , coming from 11 nationalities worldwide and with backgrounds not only in aerospace engineering, but also architecture, psychology, physics, and other engineering disciplines.
In two competing teams the participants were tasked with the development of an international lunar base concept to be completed until for extended human presence of up to days. Both teams developed very different solutions, placing their base infrastructure at polar Team BLUE and equatorial Team RED locations, and involving diverse subsystem technologies to cope with the specifics of each environment.
The SSDW took advantage of the newly aquired infrastructure of the Concurrent Design Facility of the Faculty for Aerospace Engineering of Stuttgart University, supervised by Johannes Gross, providing excellent working environment for both teams in their local design team rooms. Outside of the technical program, social events like a welcome dinner, a visit to the Stuttgart Planetarium, and evening excursions into the Stuttgart nightlife contributed to the constant motivation of all participants.
Work on the technical results will continue in the future, while staff is already working on the preparation for SSDW European Space Research and Technology Centre. One specific noteworthiness of the SSDW was its internationality and interdisciplinarity, which was partially enabled through the support of the ESA division as well as through the growing network and visibility of the workshop approach in Europe.
In two competing teams the participants were tasked with the development of a human space transportation system, dubbed Geospace Exploration Vehicle or GEV, but not necessarily involving only a single vehicle. In fact, both teams came up with very modular solutions, with a main staging point in an orbit about the Earth-Moon libration point 2 EML2 , and very versatile utilisation potential towards LLO access, SEL2 telescope servicing and human exploration preparation towards NEOs and Mars.
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These events led to increasing team spirit and intercultural communication and networking between the young space enthusiasts in addition to the technical design challenges. Due to the unique location and internationality of the workshop, it was conducted again as a one week full-time workshop, with 28 participants from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy and Russia. In two competing teams the participants were tasked with the development of a lunar space station, i. Both teams showed outstanding dedication and motivation to the taks and came up with very elaborate results including top-level system budget data, configuration drawings and models, and simulation data.
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Take a closer look at the SSDW results page for more details. The SSDW program was rounded up by some joint social activities with participants and staff in Sydney.
These events included an Aussie barbecue and a evening talk by Dr. Miriam Baltuck, NASA representative and director of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex in Australia, on the global space exploration strategy, but also collective excursions into the Sydney nightlife, thus making it not only a technical event, but also increasing intercultural communication and networking between the young engineers interested in human spaceflight.
The SSDW was supported by:. This year saw a renewal of the international and interdisciplinary approach with a Space Station Design Workshop at the Institute of Space Systems at the Universitaet Stuttgart between 23 and 29 July Although prepared and supported for the Stuttgart students by the Astronautics and Space Station Design lecture series, the original one week full-time workshop character was emphasized to foster and to improve the possibilites of international participants from various backgrounds.
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In two competing teams the participants were tasked with the development of a "Geospace Exploration Vehicle" GEV , a manned transfer vehicle capable of shuttling between Earth orbits, libration points in the Sun-Earth-Moon system and low lunar orbit. This partly reusable vehicle, as also envisaged in the IAA Cosmic Study "Next Steps in Exploring Deep Space", provides excellent opportunity for maintenance and servicing of the sophisticated telescope systems that will be placed in orbit around the Sun-Earth libration point 2 SEL2 within the next years, but it also is a first step in a sustained infrastructure for human exploration of the Earth-Moon system and interplanetary space.
Both teams came up with very good results including top-level system budget data, configuration drawings and models, and simulation data. A public presentation and graduation on 28 July presented the SSDW and the team designs to an audience of university staff and press. The SSDW program was rounded up by a number of pre-planned and spontaneous social activities with participants and staff in Stuttgart.
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These events included a Swabian dinner and a visit of the Stuttgart planetarium, but also collective excursions into the Stuttgart nightlife, thus making it not only a technical event, but also increasing intercultural communication and networking between the young engineers interested in human spaceflight. With the return of Prof. Ernst Messerschmid to the University of Stuttgart, the Space Station Design Workshop was re-organised, integrated into the summer semester and supported by a lecture series on Astronautics and Space Station Design.
Two competing teams of students of Aerospace Engineering and Architecture were tasked with the development of a "Geostationary Workshop", a manned space station in geostationary orbit allowing for satellite servicing as well as for testing of systems and subsystems and long-duration space missions with respect to future exploration in cis-lunar space and on the Moon.
The results include top-level system budget data, configuration drawings and models, and simulation data. A public presentation on 7 July concluded the workshop. The SSDW was unique in its approach of a semester-integrated design workshop for the students in Stuttgart, giving them long teamwork phases to fully exploit the capabilities of the SSDW software tools with support from SSDW staff when needed.
However, it has to be considered that the students participated to the workshop in "extra" time while still visiting their other lectures and obligations in their respective study fields. It has therefore been decided that the upcoming SSDW will be a full-time one week event as in earlier years. The advantages of this approach are obvious in the full commitment of the participants to the workshop task and human spaceflight in general during the workshop week.
It also enables the possibilities of international participation since arrangements with other European institutions and for accomodation of external participants is much less complicated. The students worked in four teams and were tasked with the development of minimum baseline for a European-Russian space platform in low Earth orbit to complement the existing International Space Station.
This small autonomous station shall focus on commercial utilization of microgravity as well as on a first 'space hotel' to accomodate two guests at a time. Below are a picture of participants and staff as well as two of the four designs that were developed during that workshop.
Project management was performed by Steinbeis Transferzentrum Raumfahrt. This SSDW gave 30 graduate students of Aerospace Engineering and related fields from 12 European nations - selected from over applicants - a unique opportunity to work on a realistic, relevant space station-related design task chosen by the Directorate of Manned Spaceflight and Microgravity.
They gained invaluable first-hand experience with the conceptual design process and its associated activities in a competitive, multinational, interactive, team-centred environment.
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