Introduction and Overview to Space System Architecture Analysis and Wargaming
Larry B. Rainey · 2024
The unique quality or attribute about this text is that it is proposed to be the beginning/start of the seventh new subdiscipline in the field of astronautics to be labeled/entitled Space System Mission Analysis and Wargaming. As such, this text fills a major void in the literature for astronautics. The original six are astrodynamics, spacecraft/rocket propulsion, spacecraft design, guidance and controls, space environment, and bioastronautics. This text is then the first major building block/cornerstone to this new subdiscipline. In addition, with the relatively new standup of the United States Space Force on December 20, 2019 and the very new standup of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center on April 5, 2021, this text is presented at an appropriate time in its consideration of tools used in the above-listed new fields. Therefore, this chapter is the introduction and overview to the text entitled Space System Architecture Analysis and Wargaming. It has five sections. They are: Background/Rationale for This Text, Typology of Tools, What This Text Involves/Will Address, Mapping of Tools Addressed in the Chapter to the Type of Tools That They Are, and a Summary of What Each Chapter Will Address.