Jotne : The Home of Symphony

At the Concurrent Design Facility in Toulouse, France, known as -CIC- (Centre d'ingénierie Concourante) the French Space Organization CNES have their PASO (Plateau d'Architecture des Systèmes Orbitaux) office. The main responsibility of PASO is managing mission feasibility studies for orbital projects. This is also the home of the Symphony project that Jotne EPM Technology is undertaking with CNES.

Jean Luc This PASO organization is based on a structure composed of a dedicated engineering team that intersects with a number of specialty groups focused on various disciplines critical to orbital project success. “PASO uses a Concurrent Design Facility to analyse the different options during feasibility studies and exploits this information to achieve optimal trade-offs,” says PASO’s Jean-Luc Le Gal.

According to Le Gal, the CIC has been operational since September 2005 and brings about various benefits such as:

Overall control of study progress is now better maintained
All participants in the study have a clear depiction of the system
Collaborative capacity is increased, not only within CNES but also with partners such as space agencies, industries and laboratories
Preparation of the Open Concurrent Design Server (OCDS) implementation within CIC
Improvement on technical data exchanges with partners

Bildetekst: Le Gal says that the goal of the Symphony projects is as follows:

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