ESA / INNOVATION AGENCY

MBSE 2025

5–7 Nov 2025 | Vilnius, Lithuania

Marcel Verhoef

System Engineering

European Space Agency

Noordwijk, Netherlands

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System Engineer at the ESA Concurrent Design Facility; supporting the digitalisation of engineering, using MBSE. Co-convenor of the MB4SE advisory group.

My organisation

The European Space Agency (ESA) is a 23-member international organization devoted to space exploration, founded in 1975
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About me

MSc in computer science (1992), specialised in formal techniques. PhD in computer science (2009), on multi-disciplinary design of complex embedded real-time control systems. Twenty years of industry experience in developing embedded real-time systems for wide variety of customers and application areas. Ten year of experience in spacecraft development, with focus on flight software. Worked on Cheops, Euclid and METOP-SG. Author of two textbooks on practical application of formal methods for system design.

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Skills

  • MBSE
  • Formal methods
  • concurrent engineering

Speaker sessions (2)

Thursday, 6 November 2025

11:00 - 12:30

Hackathon: Minimal and open-source SysML v2 library models for space

Location:ETA hallTrack:Day 2 - Track 2
  • SysML v2
  • Space industry
  • Library models

First, an open source SysML v2 library for space models will be introduced. Afterwards, a practical exercise using the library will be carried out. In the end, a discussion of future collaborations and development with the audience.

14:00 - 16:00

WCIS Topic 1: Towards adoption of SysMLv2 in the space community

Location:ZETA (1+2) hallTrack:Day 2 - Track 1
  • SysML v2
  • MBSE
  • Space tailored MBSE tooling
  • Community
  • Web-based modeler
  • GSEF
  • World Cafe Interactive Session

The IDEF project aims to foster Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) adoption by integrating SysML v2 into the space domain (30 minute round-robin)