Modified concurrent design facility for emerging countries

Developing a space system is a challenge which includes risk that increases with the lack of practical experience especially for a new player in space industry. A concurrent design facility (CDF) with especially tailored work stations can lower the risk of lack of experience through increasing the team interaction as additive experience and decrease over design budgets generated by designers as a result of over protective measures which leads to the infeasibility of the project. It has been demonstrated that CDF approach has proved to minimize cost and time of conceptual design, increasing possibility of studying all possible technical resolutions and exploring different architectures to find the most appropriate architecture for each mission meeting time, cost and risk constrains and also satisfying the customer who already participates during conceptual design phase. Establishing concurrent design facility (CDF) for developing countries newly introduced to space industry has great importance. With the proper organizational assembly and especially tailored workstations developing countries would have the chance to start accomplishing strong steps in designing a feasible space missions. In this paper a survey of existing concurrent design facilities (CDF) and the modifications conducted and recommended to achieve optimum risk and cost to make the facility a valuable asset for emerging countries is presented.