Resilient Space System Design

Methods, approaches, and considerations in achieving resilience in an increasingly contested environment

Keys to Designing for Resilience

  • Mission Capabilities

    Which mission capabilities does the system provide that must be maintained?

  • Concept of Operations

    How is the system nominally operated? What other modes are available?

  • Threats

    What credible threats have been identified, characterized, and validated?

  • Measurement and Analysis

    How is resilience quantified? How is it measured and calculated so that engineers can use a defined methodology to perform trade studies?

  • Design Approach

    Designing a resilient system requires the development of threat mitigation approaches and techniques while still maintaining performance and affordability. How can this be achieved?

  • Planned Evolution

    Flexible, agile, and extensible designs, based upon scalable and modular frameworks enable a more continuous system evolution to respond to changes in the threat environment and requirements