Project MARIE
Project MARIE (Mission Assurance Reimagining in Extreme Environments) will serve as both a 3-article publication project for Doctoral studies as well as (3) individual field-based projects under TIC.
A 3-article publication, or 3-paper dissertation, generally consists of (3) standalone, publication-quality research papers encompassed in a unifying introduction and conclusion.
Project MARIE will segment into three sections. The first is explaining and refining the developing theory of transitional intelligence, how it possibly expands on and differs from crisis intelligence, and utilizing the development of the methodology to provide a recognizable mission assurance operational framework for the other additional two assignments within Project MARIE.
Guidance from the Dissertation program chair mentors will be significant in continuing to develop, refine, or modify this methodology.
The second segment under Project MARIE will be in working on the upcoming International Space Station deorbit and subsequent transition to privatized LEO (Low Earth orbit) satellites as a 7-year project, working alongside NASA, the Russian Roscosmos, the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) on mission assurance effectiveness and success evaluation through the transitional intelligence model.
The dissertation process will capture the pre-retirement phase of the International Space Station and utilize that segment to analyze and present mission assurance findings while preparing for the active subsequent real-life phases of the project.
The transitional intelligence framework and methodology will be applied to the mission assurance protocol proposal for this project.
The third segment of Project MARIE is studying how the transitional intelligence framework can be applied to mission assurance during critical system degradation across increasing Earth-distance in three main environments: cislunar/lunar operations, interplanetary transit, and Mars travel operations.
This work will be presented as a playbook of various protocols, guides, and simulation scenarios, with field exercises to be enacted and evaluated amongst a team of scientists, engineers, and researchers for mission assurance purposes.
The first phase of the playbook will be 3 years long and encompass part of the upcoming dissertation work in Project MARIE. The Deep Space Playbook will then continue to be updated annually with a variety of additional space travel mission scenarios and protocol guides based on research and field-based simulation scenarios.