Spacecraft electrical power subsystem design utilising the ESA-ESTEC concurrent design facility (CDF)

ESA´s general definition for the term ´concurrent engineering´ is as follows: development of an engineering design team covering all relevant disciplines as from the initiation of a project; with the team working and communicating in a single environment, to establish a system design within a short period of time and in a more consistent way with respect to other approaches. This design approach offers distinctive gains due to greater consistency over a shorter time period. This article describes the above-mentioned approach applied in the area of the spacecraft electrical power systems design