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Apollo 11

16–24 July 1969Crew Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin Launch vehicle SA-506

The first crewed lunar landing, described in SysML v2 from the mission's purpose down to the Saturn V's engines. The model was built by Airbus Central R&T on its five-layer CoSMA framework.

At a glance

The mission in numbers

The flight as planned and as flown, and the size of the model that describes it.

Planned duration
195.3 h
the mission's plannedDuration
Lunar landing
100 h 15 min
mission elapsed time, as flown
Splashdown
191 h 46 min
mission elapsed time, as flown
Launch mass
2,970 t
Saturn V at liftoff
Requirements
294
at 4 levels, from stakeholder needs to components
Functions
69
the system must perform
Hardware types
70
and 66 serial-numbered vehicles
Documented
89%
of the model's definitions
Part 1

The mission

Why Apollo 11 was flown, for whom, and how it unfolds: the stakeholders and their needs, the phases and operations of the concept of operations with the trajectory that sets their timing, and the flight as it actually happened.

Purpose

Mission overview

The mission statement and goals, the stakeholders and their needs, the capabilities that answer them, and the systems around the mission.

7stakeholders
22needs
25capabilities
5goals
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Operations

Concept of operations

The mission phases and their exit criteria, the trajectory and its timing drivers, and the operations performed in each phase.

13phases
39operations
14transitions
initial → preparation → launch → tli → tlc → loi → lunarOpsDescentPrep → poweredDescent → lunarSurfaceOps → lunarAscentRendezvous → tei → tec → reentryLanding → recoveryQuarantine → final
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As flown

Mission timeline

The flight as it happened, one example run through the nominal plan: the mission periods, the event log and the recorded flight data.

14mission periods
59recorded events
191 h 46 minsplashdown
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Part 2

The system

What the mission system must do and how it is built: the functions and the components that perform them, the hardware and its interfaces, and the technical budgets, from the Δv each maneuver needs to the propellant, mass and power that follow.

Functions and logical components

Functional architecture

The function breakdown, the functions' inputs and outputs, their trace to operations, and what they demand of the hardware.

69functions
32logical components
functions allocated to a logical component51 / 69 · 74%
functions refining an operation52 / 69 · 75%
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Hardware and interfaces

Physical architecture

The type breakdown with dry mass, the configuration flown on Apollo 11, the engines and stages, and the interfaces by boundary.

70hardware types
66program vehicles
8interface defs
launchVehicle : SA-506spaceSuits : ExtravehicularMobilityUnitspacecraft : ApolloSpacecraft
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Δv, propellant, mass, power

Technical budgets

Budgets from the drivers to the derived values: the Δv each maneuver needs, the propellant that takes, then mass, power and reliability, each with its margin.

3analyses
14calculations
analysis results the model computes10 / 26 · 38%
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Part 3

Requirements and programmatics

How the requirements trace from stakeholder needs down to components, and what the mission costs. Cost comes last, as in any technical review.

Requirements

Requirements and traceability

The requirements at every level, the traceability matrices, and the coverage and gap report.

Mission requirements satisfied43 / 43 · 100%
Functional requirements satisfied112 / 112 · 100%
Technical requirements satisfied103 / 117 · 88%
stakeholder needs refined22 / 22 · 100%
satisfy statements verifiable from the model0 / 272 · 0%
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Cost

Programmatic resources

The mission cost estimate by category, and what a review would need that the model does not record: a base year, phasing, and the program's share.

$11 Bestimated cost
4categories

Postulated values, in dollars of no stated year:

R&D: 45%manufacturing: 27%personnel: 18%operations: 9%
R&D $5 Bmanufacturing $3 Bpersonnel $2 Boperations $1 B
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Part 4

About the model

What the model covers, what we noticed in it, and how it is organized.

For reviewers

Review notes

The completeness scorecard, what we noticed in the model with a suggested change for each item, and what the model does not cover.

definitions documented609 / 682 · 89%
requirements satisfied (mission, functional, technical)258 / 272 · 95%
asserted constraints that hold0 / 3 · 0%
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For modelers

Model navigator

How the model is organized into CoSMA layers, packages and files, the CoSMA metamodel, and the dependencies between files.

28files
6,968elements
682definitions
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Acknowledgements

The model is the work of Airbus Central R&T, published as an open research artifact. The dashboard and the analyses it shows were designed by Dr Maged Elaasar. We thank David Wagner for his review of these pages, which contributed to their current form.

ModelwareProduced on 07 Nov 2026 from the Apollo 11 SysML v2 model v0.0.1 with Modelware's Sysight tool, © 2026 Modelware.