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Increasingly complex missions with reduced budgets has placed a premium on “better, cheaper, faster” system approaches for producing spacecraft. The natural consequence of this pressure to improve quality while reducing process time and expense is that activities once considered essential to design and development are now viewed as luxuries. To produce timely inputs during the condensed design phase, the spacecraft subsystem architect must continually improve the efficiency of analysis activities. This type of improvement is particularly necessary in the area of thermal analysis, which is often viewed as a peripheral activity. However, through the use of enhanced software analysis tools, the thermal engineer can ensure a comprehensive spacecraft thermal analysis that yields timely system design inputs in a cost-effective manner.