WCIS Topic 3: Federated Data Exchange for MBSE and Digital Continuity

This topic is part of the World-Cafe Interactive Session, participants will be moving to another topic after 30 minutes discussion.

Efficient space programs rely on maintaining verifiable, cross-organization traceability from early mission-analysis artefacts to post-launch operational data. This two-hour technical workshop, part of the world café, tackles that challenge by exposing participants to—and inviting them to stress-test—two complementary enablers of digital continuity.

First, a GAIA-X-conformant federated dataspace shows how contract-based data-sovereignty policies enable secure data exchange across corporate boundaries while preserving provenance, confidentiality, and IP ownership.

Second, an MBSE-Hub prototype presents a graph-centric integration layer that merges heterogeneous engineering sources into a navigable knowledge graph with bidirectional traceability and change-impact analytics.

Following an initial framing of current MBSE exchange pain-points, each of the four 30-minute rounds includes two short live demos and a rapid audience poll to identify evaluation priorities. This is followed by a 15-minute hands-on sprint, where participants map a spacecraft “day-in-the-life” scenario, color-coding pain-points and solution ideas onto journey-map templates.

The session aims to generate user stories, annotated diagrams, and preliminary architecture sketches—not just sticky notes. Participants will also raise challenges related to standards/tool-chain alignment and governance/adoption strategy.

Outcomes include a prioritized action backlog, a six-month integration roadmap aligned to ECSS and GAIA-X, and a technical gallery walk for deeper insight. By combining live experimentation with structured design thinking, the session delivers a reproducible blueprint for secure, standards-compliant MBSE data continuity.