An Exploration of MBSE Through the Modelling of the S2TEP Space System

Kurzfassung

Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) has great potential for the development of spacecraft as it promises to provide a more effective way to handle complexity. As part of a student project, the application of MBSE in conceptual design was explored through the modelling with the GENESYS tool of a micro-satellite currently being developed at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The project sought to find the value of utilising model-based techniques and explore useful modelling techniques and applications to inform future MBSE efforts at the DLR. A model of the spacecraft was created in parallel to the system development. This allowed for some key benefits of MBSE to be found. MBSE was explored through both descriptive and analytic modelling of the spacecraft.