The increasing number of space missions has fuelled the deployment of new launch services that focus on reusability as capability to enable their business models in a competitive scenario, by reducing their operations’ cost, making more agile campaigns and increasing launch rate. Two axes drive that target, first the correct awareness in real-time of the launcher systems’ status. Secondly the flight data exploitation towards predictive maintenance on ground of the reusable systems to ready its availability for next flight. That strategy highly contributes to the reusability and hence to cost reductions and agile campaigns. Your team will be entrusted with the detailed definition of the strategy/methodology for the implementation of an on-board system monitoring (which are the parameters to monitor?) and post-flight RAMS assessment, with the objective of increasing the reusable system availability. The use data exploitation techniques in the domain of predictive maintenance is encouraged (IVHM, integrated vehicle health monitoring, degradation models, supervised models, regression algorithms…), applied to the collected in-flight data (maybe simulated). With these studies we might answer the question, what is the real impact of reusability on launch operations’ costs and launch service business model?

May the force be with you!