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h1. Objectives and project planning

Our Cubesat project is a very tiny project compared to those big missions from huge Space Agencies, like NASA or ESA.

From a practical and factual point of view, tanking into account the project objectives, there is no needs of having a system engineering structure. However, it is still needed some minimal project planning and control.

In spite of any system engineering task would be almost useless in our Cubesat project, it would be interesting to 

h2. Introduction to Systems Engineering

Systems engineering is the science of developing a system capable of meeting requirements within often opposed constraints. The main task is to find a safe and balanced design in the face of opposing interests and multiple conflicting requirements. In other words, system engineering is about balancing organizational and technical interactions in complex systems.

Thus, it is about tradeoffs, compromises and generalists rather than specialists in a complex system development process.

h2. Project life cycle for space missions

h2. MsSCS-Cubesat project planning

h3. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

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h3. Tasks description

h3. Gantt planning and PERT analysis

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