4 Design and Implementation of a System Engineering Standard Process for Satellite Development

This paper describes a european approach to standardize the satellite development process. The results of the standardization efforts of the “European Cooperation for Space Standardisation” (ECSS) have been used as a basis. As a generic model to structure the current processes the four-dimensional model (ZOPH) is applied. The subsequent implementation of the proposed model into the engineering data management system METAPHASE™ is presented.