Sometimes, the best way to learn how to do something is just to do it. That is especially true if you’re learning to do something using a specific methodology. And in some cases, the outcome of your efforts is something that’s interesting to other people. A team from across the European Union, led by PhD candidate Domenico D’Auria, spent a few days last September performing just such an exercise – and their work resulted in a mission architecture known as the Planetary Exploration Deployment and Research Operation – Venus, or PEDRO-V.
