Title :
Supporting the vision for space with discrete event simulation
Author :
Cates, Grant R. ; Mollaghasemi, Mansooreh
Author_Institution :
Operations Integration Div., Kennedy Space Center
Abstract :
On January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a new vision for space exploration. This vision called for NASA to complete the assembly of the international space station by 2010 and retire the space shuttle immediately thereafter. A discrete event simulation (DES) based tool has been built to assess the viability of NASA accomplishing all of the space shuttle missions required to assemble the space station by the end of the decade. This paper describes this DES tool i.e. the manifest assessment simulation tool (MAST)
Keywords :
aerospace computing; discrete event simulation; space vehicles; NASA; discrete event simulation; international space station; manifest assessment simulation tool; space exploration; space shuttle mission; Assembly; Delay; Discrete event simulation; Hardware; International Space Station; NASA; Space exploration; Space shuttles; Testing; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2005 Proceedings of the Winter
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9519-0
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2005.1574391
