[ginkgotree]

very cool! This was quite literally manually scraping manuals and spec sheets, and plugging into excel for me. Rather that be for Size, Weight, Power budget, or even interfaces. I'd love to see a drag and drop tool the plops out an ICD, power budget, etc. One observation I've had on my missions: compatability is often a mess of drivers and just getting components to talk to one another, and the details are behind NDAs and export laws, etc. GRanted, even just solving the early phases of ICD and the general (does this mission fit in an 8U/12U, etc bus), would be a massive help. Very cool project that I could see becoming a paid tool

[thadjones]

Appreciate it! Totally agree, your experience is what drove me to start building Vesper in the first place. Not only do you have to find the right hardware and manually scrape the specs, but then any time you change hardware you have to update it across a number of docs - keeping them all synced is a pain. And the alternative is an incredibly time-intensive and bloated MBSE model... My end hope is that Vesper can blend the low barrier-to-entry of an excel analysis with the interconnectedness of an MBSE model.

The goal is to get to exactly what you describe, with drag and drop tools that then basically give you an export of all your interconnects and performance analyses. As you point out, the reality is that the devil is in the details. For now, Vesper is focused mostly on surfacing the high-level, sanity check interface concerns and performance calculations, but I hope it can still add value at the concept definition -> proposal -> PDR phase of a program.

I also agree wholeheartedly with your other comment that some of the biggest challenges are jumping through the regulatory hoops like FCC licensing and range safety, so maybe once I've got the technical stuff limping along I can take a look at how to incorporate that process somewhat.

[ginkgotree]

Yep, It's layer cake of pain, for the joy of getting to orbit. Agree, your approach makes sense to tackle the layer you are on now - which is just the "wiring" I'm in the cUAS space currently with a missile startup (which has many similarities to small sats), with that said, I have some contacts in the Small sat / commercial new space industry that would be interested in this. I also do have a small sat concept I hope to get into orbit when I have the time to make a flat sat prototype to sanity check the payload. Feel free to shoot me an email [e-mail] - would love to stay in touch on this project and see where I can help, and potentially be a customer