Campaign Modeling with Data-Oriented Modeling Architectures

The space industry faces a critical bottleneck: while launch costs have plummeted, spacecraft development remains expensive due to slow and inefficient design processes. Complex designs exacerbate this issue by increasing the likelihood of costly failures when attempting to cut costs. Vis Viva Space applies data-oriented programming architectures from the video game industry to develop a new data-oriented approach to Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and digital engineering tools for aerospace design applications. This proposal would develop an open source MBSE tool with a design data repository to integrate and automate analysis models as part of a continuous integration pipeline. This approach allows distributed science and engineering teams to interchange data with open, industry-standard interfaces which can be readily adapted to existing analysis tools and does not require developing new digital engineering models. This technology is initially targeted at the aerospace engineering software market, but it also has potential applications in the broader engineering software market.