SpaceNet 1.3
SpaceNet 1.3 was the first publicly-available software program from the MIT Space Logistics Rearch Project. SpaceNet was targeted to answer questions early in the Constellation program relating to:
- Network-level transportation feasibility and optimization
- Program-level requirements on individual elements like CEV (e.g., commonality, interoperability, reliability, maintainability, stowage)
- Distribution of inventories and optimal levels of safety stocks (reserves)
- Trade studies of infrastructure subsystem technologies (e.g., What is the impact of the LSAM ECLSS design on the interplanetary supply chain?)
- Network robustness and reliability studies ("what-if" analysis)
- Cost-benefit analysis of ISRU investments
- Strategic commercial relationships (i.e., What aspects of the interplanetary supply chain make commercial sense from both the NASA and private sector points of view?)
SpaceNet 1.3 was also used to support the following Integrated Design and Analysis Cycle (IDAC) 2 studies for NASA's Constellation Program.
- ATA-00-003: 1 or 2 CaLV-only-launch Architectures vs. 1.5-launch Architecture Trades
- ATA-00-004: Integrated ISS Resupply Scenarios
- ATA-00-005: Impact of Element Propellant Types on Lunar Payload Delivery