Systems and methods for describing, simulating and optimizing spaceborne systems and missions

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions that when executed by a hardware processor cause the hardware processor to perform steps comprising:

• accessing a set of missions for performance by a spacecraft, each mission each associated a set of mission actions and a set of mission requirements;
• identifying, for each of a plurality of spacecraft systems, a set of hardware resources configured to perform mission actions associated with the set of missions;
• performing, for each spacecraft system, a simulation of a simultaneous performance of the set of missions by the spacecraft system by validating the spacecraft system as capable of performing the set of missions;
• and
• selecting a validated spacecraft system and configuring the selected spacecraft system for performing the set of missions based on the simulation by modifying an operation of a hardware component of the spacecraft system based on the simulation to perform the set of missions and validating that the modified operation of the hardware component does not cause the validated spacecraft system to run out of one or more resources based on a simulation output.