Systems Engineering Seminar

Presented by:
Elyse Fosse, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 1:00pm (ET)



WebEx
Meeting number (access code): 199 592 7855
Meeting password: SES@NaSA21
415-527-5035 US Toll

Abstract:

The Mars2020 project successfully landed the Perseverance rover and its flying companion Ingenuity on the surface of Mars on February 18th 2021. Perseverance combines heritage and cutting-edge flight software and hardware to accomplish crucial mission requirements related to Martian surface sampling. This talk chronicles the infusion of MBSE early in the Flight System and Operations design to leverage heritage, disparate documentation into a queryable technical baseline. We will explore how these early efforts evolved later in the mission lifecycle and how it solved (or didn't) some common Systems Engineering challenges. Finally, we will examine how the MBSE efforts on Mars2020s can (or can't) be leveraged by future space missions.

Biography:

Elyse Fosse is a software systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena CA. She is an MBSE early adopter who has been working on the Mars2020 Mission since 2014. She is currently operates the Rover on Mars and previously split her time on Mars2020 infusing MBSE into the Flight System and Operations System as well as leading the design of autonomous scheduling behaviors.

Prior to that she contributed to building the modeling infrastructure in use at JPL today. She received a M.S. in Mathematics from Claremont Graduate University and a B.S in Mathematics from University of Massachusetts Amherst.