Responsive Space Launch with the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System

For decades the space domain has been used for military purposes. When enemy forces establish counter-space capabilities, this could become a weakness. Responsive Space is a concept that focuses on replenishing lost capabilities and/or granting additional capabilities from space assets quickly. The continuous miniaturization of technologies has...

Implementation of a collaborative environment to support the integration of 3^rd generation MDO frameworks

Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) frameworks, capable of performing overall aircraft design studies become too complex to be comprehended by a single team of experts. Therefore, there is an increasing need to develop distributed analysis frameworks in which both tools and experts are integrated in a single network. This poses great...

Development of a knowledge-enabled tool repository to support automated generation of multidisciplinary design optimization workflows