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Team X

Team X is a cross-functional multidisciplinary team of engineers that utilizes concurrent engineering methodologies to complete rapid design, analysis and evaluation of mission concept designs.

This advanced design team of experienced flight-project engineers is co-located in the Project Design Center to complete architecture, mission, and instrument design studies in real time.

Team X celebrated its twentieth anniversary in 2015.

The Project Design Center is a state-of-the-art facility consisting of networked workstations, a supporting data management infrastructure, large interactive graphic displays, computer modeling and simulation tools, historical data repositories and a shared project model that the design team updates.

Team X Design Session

Products include exploration architectures, systems, payloads, instruments, and technologies for Earth, lunar, asteroid, comet, planetary, astronomy and physics missions.

Design Study Capabilities include:

Systems Integration & Design Convergence Architecture Conceptualization & Trades Sensitivity Analysis & Trade Space Exploration
Systems Integration & Design Convergence Architecture Conceptualization & Trades Sensitivity Analysis & Trade Space Exploration
Trajectory Analysis & Visualization Configuration & Integration Block Diagrams & Interface Analyses
Trajectory Analysis & Visualization Configuration & Integration Block Diagrams & Interface Analyses
Technical Resource Scenario Analyses
Technical Resource Scenario Analyses


For more information please contact:
Kelley Case
Concept Design Methods Chief
(818) 354-5870
Kelley.Case@jpl.nasa.gov
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