Abstract
Each proposal for a NASA mission concept includes a Science Traceability Matrix (STM), intended to show that what is being proposed would contribute to satisfying one or more of the agency’s top-level science goals. But the information traditionally provided cannot be used directly to quantitatively compare anticipated science return. We added numerical elements to NASA’s STM and developed a software tool to process the data. We then applied this methodology to evaluate a group of competing concepts for a proposed mission to Saturn’s moon, Titan.
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National Research Council. Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2011.
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Technical data inputs to the study were provided by Titan team scientists led by Dr. Mathieu Choukroun. This study was sponsored by the JPL Solar System Exploration Program Office and was conducted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is operated by the California Institute of Technology.
© 2014 California Institute of Technology. Government sponsorship acknowledged.
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Weisbin, C.R., Lincoln, W. (2015). Titan Science Return Quantification. In: Selvaraj, H., Zydek, D., Chmaj, G. (eds) Progress in Systems Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 366. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08422-0_1
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