Mission Simulation and Digital Twins: Rehearsing Spaceflight Before It Happens

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A spacecraft is tested before launch, but the mission also has to be rehearsed. The vehicle may survive vibration, thermal vacuum, deployment checks, and software tests, yet still leave the team unprepared for the awkward middle of real operations: a late ground pass, an unexpected temperature trend, a thruster that behaves slightly differently than the model, a payload queue filling faster than planned, a safe mode during a holiday shift, or a launch injection that is good enough but not exactly the orbit people practiced in presentations.

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Mission Simulation and Digital Twins: Rehearsing Spaceflight Before It Happens