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to your destination
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to your destination
Mission Concept and Requirements Review (MCRR)
The MCRR is your team's first deliverable. The purpose of the MCRR is to get a head start on some of the most important aspects of your PDR and to allow the team to receive feedback on these key elements (see MCRR instructions for more).
Over the next couple weeks your team will utilize your Discord to communicate and complete this deliverable. A mentor will then review and provide feedback on what you submit, and then at your next team meeting you will discuss the feedback provided. Your team will then need to make the necessary changes requested and advised by the mentor. The mentors are all extremely capable and experienced people who have done these tasks before. Please take their feedback seriously and constructively.
For this deliverable, there are important skills you will want to have in order to be successful. Those skills can be learned in the requirements and risk-management skill modules. While these skill modules can be taken until the last day of the academy, it is recommended to do them now since it relates so heavily to what you are doing.
Below are some helpful resources to aide you in completing this deliverable.
Team Meeting Notes Template
MCRR
Instructions
Mission Task
Document
Requirements
Training Video
STM
Training Video
STM
Template
Requirements
Template
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Team Organizational Chart
The purpose of this deliverable is to help you organize your team. An organizational chart outlines the assigned roles for each team member in a visual manner.
Below are some helpful resources to aide you in completing this deliverable.
Org Chart Instructions
Team Organization Guide
Project Management
Skills Module
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Section 3 Draft
This section should focus on your team’s payload(s) and internal systems that play a role in supporting your collection of scientific data.
Below are some helpful resources to aide you in completing this deliverable.
TRL Slides
STM
Template
Trade Study Template
Mission Task Document
STM
Training Video
Systems
Training Video
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Section 2 Draft
This section should focus on your team’s vehicle design and any components that play a role in supporting your vehicle’s mission to collect science on the planetary surface.
Below are some helpful resources to aide you in completing this deliverable.
Heat Flow Map Example Math
TRL Slides
Heat Transfer
Training Video
Systems
Skills Module
Trade Study Template
NX
Skills Module
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Section 1 Draft
This section should focus on providing the reader with a high-level overview of the mission and highlight key elements that will provide necessary context going into the next sections.
Below are some helpful resources to aide you in completing this deliverable.
Requirements
Template
Requirements
Training Video
Mission Phases Training Video
(ConOps)
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Revised PDR and Sections 4, 5, and 6
This deliverable includes your revised sections 1, 2, and 3 along with your drafted sections 4, 5, and 6. For the revised sections, please make sure that all RFA/ADVs are addressed and the appropriate corrections have been made prior to resubmission.
For section 4, this section should focus on your team’s risk management and hazard mitigation for the mission and its personnel.
Below are some helpful resources to aide you in completing this section.
FMEA Slides
Risk Matrix Template
FMEA Template
Risk Management Training Video
For section 5, this section should focus on your team’s project management aspects; budget, schedule, outreach, and approach to project management.
Below are some helpful resources to aide you in completing this section.
MCCET
NICM Guide
Budget Template
Contractor and
Vendor Database
Teaming
Training Video
Gantt Chart
Template
Team Organization
Guide
Project Management Skills Module
For section 6, this section should summarize your PDR - including your mission statement, vehicle and payload overview (no CAD). This section should also discuss future plans: what are the next milestones your team is working towards? If you had more time, what would you continue working on? Include your team’s plans for the Critical Design Review (CDR). This should be no more than 1-2 paragraphs.
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Final PDR and Presentation
For the final deliverable, your team is expected to submit a PDR for review. This means that your team should have all sections completed and formatted following the provided guidelines, and you should also have incorporated any feedback from your mentors into the final draft. For additional guidance on the PDR sections, please refer to the PDR Guide.
The below documents further explain this final deliverable.
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Note: Submission links will be made accessible 48 hours prior to the due date.
Mission Concept and Requirements Review (MCRR)
The MCRR is your team's first deliverable. The purpose of the MCRR is to get a head start on some of the most important aspects of your PDR and to allow the team to receive feedback on these key elements (see deliverable instructions for more).
Over the next couple weeks your team will utilize your Discord to communicate and complete this deliverable. A mentor will then review and provide feedback on what you submit, and then at your next team meeting you will discuss the feedback provided. Your team will then need to make the necessary changes requested and advised by the mentor. The mentors are all extremely capable and experienced people who have done these tasks before. Please take their feedback seriously and constructively.
For this deliverable, there are important skills you will want to have in order to be successful. Those skills can be learned in the requirements and risk-management skill modules. While these skill modules can be taken until the last day of the academy, it is recommended to do them now since it relates so heavily to what you are doing.
Project Overview
Team Deliverables
Your team will design a mission concept based off of a given task that a “customer” has given to you. Although your mission concept will be theoretical, the task will have real-life relevance to one of NASA’s interests. You will deliver this mission concept in the form of a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) document and presentation. You will receive an outline to follow and there will be different deliverables your team will be expected to submit throughout the academy to check your progress and provide feedback.
All deliverables are due at 11:59 PM PT. More information regarding each deliverable and submission links for each can be found in the tabs above.
