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Getting a hold on the Challenge

• Is space the best way to proved what the customer
  wants?
• Is your first priority to give the best value to
  the customer?
• If 1 is No, you should send the customer to
  the industry that has the best answer.
• If 1 is Yes, then lets proceed.

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Getting a hold on the Challenge

• Is your first priority to give the best value to
  the customer?
• If 2 is No, do you want to be working for this
  company? --- it does happen!
• If 2 is Yes, then lets proceed.

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More questions

• What is the customers motivation for the mission?
• Military
• Scientific
• Commercial
• Private
• Is there a hidden agenda?
• Conquer the world
• Find the green planet
• New part of Google
• Win a Nobel prize
• Does this mission meet the goals of your company?
• Your company experience and goals are to build
  little satellites and the customer with lots of
  money wants a big satellite.

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First
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Mission Statement
Example
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Mission Statement
Lunar Prospector
Example
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Lunar Prospector
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How does a mission statement differ from a goal?
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Col. Bradley Parkinson
How does a mission statement differ from a goal
(motto)? --- maybe same?
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What are some things you need you need to
consider for defining a mission?
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Space Missions
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Constraints
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Now that we have some information on Mission
Planning, lets bring in the systems engineering.
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Questions?
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