Development Log — 02‑07‑2026

Overview

Today’s development session focused on refining the project foundation and establishing a stronger systems engineering baseline for the ASTRA Autonomous Flight System (AAFS).

Completed

Completed the Project Administration documentation (EN‑0001 through EN‑0013).
Refined the overall project scope and engineering objectives.
Removed autonomous powered landing from the baseline project architecture.
Updated EN‑0001 – Project Initialization to reflect the revised project vision.
Updated EN‑0002 – Development Roadmap to align with the new project scope.
Established a formal document revision workflow using Semantic Versioning.
Finalized engineering notebook standards, document templates, and repository organization.

Engineering Decisions

Scope Revision

The autonomous powered landing objective has been removed from the baseline ASTRA roadmap.

The project will instead focus on:

Autonomous Guidance
Navigation
Flight Stabilization
Telemetry
Ground Control Systems
State Estimation
Recovery System Deployment
Mission Analysis

This decision reduces overall project complexity while allowing greater emphasis on developing a robust and modular flight computer platform.

Current Status

Project Phase: Program Foundation
Overall Progress: Administrative Foundation Complete

The engineering framework is now established, allowing development to transition into formal Systems Engineering activities.

Next Steps

Begin SYS‑001 – Mission Requirements
Define mission objectives and operational concept
Develop stakeholder requirements
Establish functional requirements
Build the initial system architecture

Notes

The project now has a complete administrative framework, including documentation standards, repository standards, requirements traceability, configuration management, verification and validation strategy, and systems engineering management planning.

Future development will focus on transforming mission objectives into traceable engineering requirements.