Project Management

Tellus1 offers extensive experience in complete management of highly advanced project elements. This experience includes over 15 years of managing highly complex technology testbeds at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, under either the critical chain (theory of constraints) or the conventional critical path paradigms.  These testbeds served the technology development efforts of NASA flagship missions and required timely and accurate expenditure of resources over all phases of the project.

Modeling

Physics based computer modeling in MATLAB or Python have been an essential part of a majority of Tellus1’s programs and tasks. The domain areas where Tellus1 offers a high level of expertise include

  • Physical Optics
  • Wavefront Sensors
  • Photon Counting Detectors
  • Photometry and Radiometry
  • Laser Metrology
  • Tracking
  • Orbits and Astrometry

System Engineering

Tellus1’s senior technical staff have system engineering experience from work on ground and space telescopes as well as government funded research and development programs. On NASA’s Roman Space Telescope, Tellus1 has provided technical metric definition, tracking, and error budgets. The flowdown of error budgets to requirements requires performance models, and in this area Tellus1’s expertise is world class.

Other essential areas where Tellus1 has provided our customers with exceptional products in system engineering include:

  • Model based trade studies
  • Operational Concepts
  • Reference Scenarios
  • Requirements Flowdown & Tracking (with DOORS)
  • Hardware Verification and Validation
  • Engineering and Flight Unit Sensor Testing
  • Risk Management and Tracking

Test Engineering

Tellus1 provides its customers, such as NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Giant Magellan Telescope, with a wide range of test engineering services. These include:

  • Test Design
    • In most contexts our test designs have been based on answers to complex physics and engineering questions, requiring a precise definition of the test objective, the expected test signal and associated uncertainty.
  • Test Requirements and Planning
    • Typically, our testing activities require their own analysis, modeling, error budgets, requirements flowdown, phasing and scheduling, albeit on smaller scales.