| Modern space systems are becoming increasingly complex. Serviceable and modular spacecraft architectures enable long-lived, reconfigurable missions—but today’s engineering methods are still fragmented. Most programs rely on discipline-specific tools for geometry, thermal analysis, power systems, and orbital dynamics. Each tool produces its own artifacts in proprietary formats. The result is a collection of disconnected silos, creating gaps across the product lifecycle, limiting tradespace exploration, and making system integration more difficult. This presentation introduces an open engineering platform that brings these domains together under a SysML v2 backbone. Engineers work in the application domain using rule-based design languages, while consistent, traceable system models are generated automatically behind the scenes. The platform builds on the Dragon architecture—a digital twin pipeline that organizes engineering artifacts with global traceability and lifecycle continuity. Our implementation, called Starforge, is domain-agnostic and extends Dragon with an AI-first interface, SysML v2 integration, and domain-specific design languages. As a case study, we demonstrate Starkit, a framework for modular spacecraft architectures. |
