Valeria Vercella Davide Ferretto , Roberta Fusaro , Nicole Viola, Victor Fernandez Villace and Johan Steelant
DOI Number XXX-YYY-ZZZ
Conference Number HiSST 2018_24701065
This paper aims at presenting an innovative tool developed by Politecnico di Torino under funding and supervision of the European Space Agency (ESA). This ad-hoc built-in tool support the designer in cost estimation during conceptual and preliminary design phases, allowing the evaluation of Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Costs (RDTE costs), Production (Prod costs) as well as Direct and Indirect Operating Costs (DOC and IOC). Eventually, results of the LCC evaluation for LAPCAT A2 and LAPCAT MR2 are provided and discussed.