Ultra-rapid, AI-assisted, automated digital engineering and digital modeling, assembly, and environmental test of an ESPA-class satellite in 10 months or less (MERCURY)

The focus of this project will be to demonstrate the capability for our AAA enabled, rapid automated satellite bus Digital Engineering (DE) & automated digital model generation system (MERCURY) to design and then assemble a payload tailored, ESPA-class satellite from mission-concept to launch-ready satellite, on a tactically relevant timescale of less than 10 months. Our rapid, automatically digitally engineered satellite bus will be payload tailored for a novel, autonomy-enabling, on-board digital twin payload. MERCURY will receive data on the launch, the satellite mission, and payload characteristics and then will automatically generate physics-anchored digital models and twins of the satellite bus designs that satisfy the mission objectives.