@TechReport{SousaChag:2023:OvINSp,
               author = "Sousa, Fabiano Lu{\'{\i}}s de and Chagas, Ronan Arraes Jardim",
                title = "An overview of INPE’s Space Missions Integrated Design Center 
                         (CPRIME)",
          institution = "Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais",
                 year = "2023",
                 type = "RPQ",
               number = "INPE-18650-RPQ/954",
              address = "S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos Campos",
             keywords = "space mission, concurrent engineering, concept design, integrated 
                         design center, systems engineering.",
             abstract = "The establishment of integrated concurrent design centers has 
                         shown to be a turning point for achieving higher productivity and 
                         better design solutions in space mission conceptual design. 
                         Concept design studies that usually took months to be performed 
                         using tradition design approaches, where reduced to a few weeks, 
                         with no loss of quality. On the contrary, by making the conceptual 
                         design an activity where all disciplines related to the 
                         development of the product being conceived are taken into account 
                         simultaneously, the concurrent approach allows a greater design 
                         awareness and early identification of potential problems that 
                         would arise in later stages of the product´s lifecycle. The gain 
                         in design time provided by the concurrent integrated approach also 
                         allows more studies to be carried out, expanding the portfolio of 
                         mission proposals able to go through feasibility analysis quickly. 
                         The importance of such kind of facility is highlighted, for 
                         example, by ESA´s Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) becoming an 
                         essential tool to support ESA decision making and risk management 
                         processes (ESA, 2021). In this document is presented an overview 
                         of INPE´s Space Missions Integrated Design Center (Centro de 
                         Projeto Integrado de Miss{\~o}es Espaciais CPRIME). CPRIME is 
                         INPE´s concurrent facility for conceptual design of space missions 
                         and, as far the authors know, the first of such kind of facility 
                         to be established in Brazil. Following this Introduction, in 
                         Chapter 2 a brief overview of concurrent engineering in integrated 
                         design centers for space missions is presented; in Chapter 3 is 
                         described how these features were implemented in CPRIME; in 
                         Chapter 4 a summary of the studies performed so far, and lessons 
                         learned on the construction and operation of CPRIME are 
                         highlighted, followed by the Conclusion in Chapter 5.",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
             language = "en",
                pages = "30",
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           targetfile = "publicacao.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "02 maio 2024"
}