NASA DOME
Disaggregated Observatory for Mission Efficiency
Navigate Space Industry Capabilities
with NASA DOME’s Specialized Knowledge
Introducing the NASA DOME (Disaggregated Observatory for Mission Efficiency) Collaboration Hub – as a sub-organization of the Integrated Design Center, the DOME architecture design lab specializes in building relationships between government spaceflight needs and commercial industry capabilities.
DOME
DOME is a disaggregated observation architecture designed to increase the pace of innovation and achieve high priority exploration and science objectives cost-effectively. It leverages industry capabilities and investments – along with NASA technology – to enable a federated collection of instrumented spacecraft to meet the objectives of multiple exploration and science disciplines and US national needs. The DOME architecture enables the rapid realization of a next generation intelligent, adaptive, disaggregated observation infrastructure. DOME is planned to operate across NASA and the US Government.
DOME Collaboration Hub
The DOME Collaboration Hub includes a facility (the DOME Architecture Design Lab, ADL), a dedicated expert staff, and the Commercial Spacecraft Capabilities and Knowledge Database. The DOME Collaboration Hub breaks down traditional barriers by engaging industry partners early in technology development and mission formulation processes. The Hub doesn’t just support missions – it maximizes their potential for groundbreaking success through the following partnership activities:
- Building knowledge of commercial spacecraft, companies, and launch opportunities
- Performing market research and developing analysis products for guiding mission leads and other government agencies on industry capabilities and trends
- Assisting Principal Investigators in the formulation of agile, disaggregated, networked, and intelligent spacecraft and instruments leveraging industry capabilities
- Connecting NASA and other Government Agency personnel with commercial spaceflight capabilities and opportunities
The Commercial Spacecraft Database:
A Gateway to Advanced Mission Planning
The Commercial Spacecraft Database is a resource of the DOME Collaboration Hub for providing the NASA mission and instrument formulation community with up-to-date characteristics and capabilities of commercially available spacecraft and spacecraft manufacturers. It is managed by the DOME Collaboration Hub staff and is maintained through updates directly from industry participants.
This exclusive DOME database offers NASA teams unprecedented access to detailed, manufacturer-verified spacecraft specifications not typically available through public sources. The standardized resource empowers instrument and mission development with:
- Increase visibility of commercial small spacecraft options for NASA instrument/mission teams
- Provide standardized spacecraft specs and manufacturer data to mission planners
- Deliver common size-weight-and-power (SWAP) ranges across multiple spacecraft platforms
- Reduce redundant manufacturer contacts from multiple NASA sources
- Maintain industry points of contact for market research and Goddard hosted community events
The DOME Architecture is Agile
DOME is a dynamic knowledge framework for government and commercial space capabilities. The framework accelerates the formulation of agile, disaggregated, networked, and intelligent spacecraft and instruments by bridging the gap between NASA’s space mission knowledge databases and available industry solutions.
- DOME resources are planned to be available for all NASA and across the US Government
- Secure digital database of current commercial spacecraft capabilities housed on existing IDC IT infrastructure
- Live document, able to be securely updated by the companies themselves
- Solve the frustration that companies are repeatedly asked the same questions
- Agency-internal commercial spacecraft knowledge base
- Capabilities, limitations, known issues and workarounds, lessons learned
- Annual Commercial Spacecraft User Forum and Industry Day to foster engagement between government and industry
Contact the DOME Team
For resource questions or further information on support from the DOME Team,
process, or product options, please contact Liz Matson, IDC Manager.