Operations research in the space industry

Large satellite constellations and space debris: Exploratory analysis of strategic management of the space commons

“…As one can easily imagine, a large literature in engineering, optimization, and control, covers each of these streams, and all will eventually contribute to the above outlined directions for reducing space congestion with debris. Reviewing the literature, even only after Fliege et al (2012), is well beyond the objective of this paper and would take the readers along paths very remote from our paper's focus. To give a hint about some of the optimization techniques used in the literature, we give few examples mainly in system design and system management, one of the favorite topics in OR.…”

Economic Protection of Secure Operation and Development of Companies in the Rocket and Space Industry

“…This requires development of a unified integrated database and special information tools on the basis of state-of-the-art computer technologies (Fliege, J. et al, 2013).…”

Valuing Flexibility. Phase 2

“…Both the design and operation of satellites for public and private use are multi-billion dollar investments [Gavish, 1997]. Satellites pose many interesting and difficult problems for operations researchers and engineers, for a more thorough discussion of the types of problems and the work done in this application domain, see Fliege et al [2012] and Gavish [1997]. While the design and operation of satellites pose many complex problems for operations researchers and engineers, we focus on a small example in order to illustrate the ability of techniques to measure the value of flexibility.…”