The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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The Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) is a state-of-the-art facility equipped with a network of computers, multimedia devices and software tools, which allows a team of experts from several disciplines to apply the concurrent engineering method to the design of future space missions.
The CDF’s infrastructure, methodology, tools and processes allow teams of experts from different engineering disciplines to work in close coordination in the same place, at the same time, to develop complex designs very quickly -- typically, in a matter of a few weeks compared to the duration of standard pre-Phase A design period, which is several months.
Concurrent Engineering provides a collaborative, co-operative, collective and simultaneous engineering working environment.
For more information please see -
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/CDF
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/CDF/What_is_the_CDF