It can also integrate with existing continuous integration and test environments.
"The work of doing detailed design, integration, and test of a large, complex, cutting-edge aircraft still remains to be done," they wrote.
Ball, selected as ST3 prime and working with JPL, provides the two spacecraft, system integration and test, and operations over the six-month mission duration.
"You are essentially propelling this vehicle along a track up to the point is disengages from the track and takes off," says Michael Wright, flight systems integration and test manager of exploration systems and co-principal investigator of the system at Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD.
It will also describe the integration and test activities performed to qualify the satellite for launch and present the first results obtained during the initial 6 months of the mission.
Principal Investigators of small and medium sized space and earth science missions face many challenges during formulation, design, development, integration and test, launch, and operations; these challenges may be more easily met by team leaders with prior mission experience.
