This paper aims to describe a template containing all elements for systems engineering pico-satellites. Thetemplate aims to be generic for accomplishing the needs of university Cubesats development programs and to bereused by such programs. It is implemented in a commercial systems engineering software environment calledCradle ? and it was developed based on the experience of the University of Wurzburg, in Germany, where threesatellites of the UWE series have already been developed since 2005. It covers: mission definition which includesstakeholder analysis, concept of operations and operational concept architecture; system requirements analysis;system architecture that shows the functional structure and behavior of the system and systems elements and thephysical or implementation architecture of the system; the detailed design that provides the system componentspecifications; the plans for all life cycle processes of the system such as development, manufacturing, assembly,integration, testing, launching, operations and disposal. The template was developed with a life cycle processperspective, using concurrent engineering principles of anticipation of life cycle process requirements to the earlystages of product development. Therefore, the models constructed in the template capture the satellite in everyscenario along its life cycle. For example, the models describe the context of the satellite during operations but alsoduring thermal vacuum testing or during launch and launch preparation. The template aims to be an instrument forteaching and learning space systems engineering and to ease the documentation burden necessary to develop a spaceproduct. It offers a solution to university satellite programs where, in general, the students do not have enoughsystems engineering background nor the university has a professional structure for systems engineering and projectmanagement. The paper also provides an example of the use of the template with the Cubesats currently underdevelopment in Brazil at INPE (Brazilian Institute for Space Research) and ITA (Aeronautics Institute ofTechnology).
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