The 11th Annual AIAA SOSTC Enhancing Space Operations Workshop was held May 4-5, 2005 at the Gilruth Center on the base of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. This workshop featured parallel tracks on Advanced Concepts/Automation, Mission Operations, Risk Management, Space Operations Tools and Technologies, Best Practices, and Simulation and Training. Both Mike Rackley and Gary Kinnaman attended this workshop with the Best Practices track as their primary focus. A trip summary can be found here. A PowerPoint presentation summarizing the individual talks given in the Best Practices track is available here. Go the AIAA SOSTC website found at http://www.aiaa.org/tc/sos/ to view the actual presentations given at all of the tracks.

A draft PowerPoint presentation is available that situates elements of the Spacecraft Design for Operability document above within the context of the systems engineering lifecycle and relates these to certain basic design principles. Each of the identified design for operability factors is briefly examined to isolate high-level benefits and deficits associated with each. The presentation concludes with a raw exposition of the ideas and comments related to designing spacecraft for operability that were exchanged during two brainstorming sessions held with the mission leads and lead engineers of the MOMS Code S Missions project in 2004. These are summarized in a table that links each to one or more of the design for operability factors for easy visual grouping. This PowerPoint presentation is available here.