Standards and Schematics for Intelligent Extensible Mission Architectures in Space

The increasing complexity and scale of modern space systems introduces newer, more complex challenges. To meet these challenges, it is critical that we design mission architectures that can adapt to changing mission objectives. Through a collaboration between NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Goddard Space Flight Center (GSCF), and Johnson Space Center (JSC), we present an upcoming technology demonstration involving two frameworks to enable modular and intelligent extensible mission architectures. This demonstration is being called MICONOS, which stands for Medium Iced Coffee, Oat Milk, No Sugar – Dr. Gizzi’s regular coffee order. We start with the motivation for modular mission designs, followed by a discussion of the foundational technologies to enable modular missions. Next, we present the main technologies contributed from each NASA center and discuss their integration. Then, we discuss the flight experiment. Finally we present the work to follow this demonstration.