The critical path in schedule analysis defines the series of tasks that have no schedule slack leading to the delivery of a system. The critical path for NASA science missions, which typically runs through a spacecraft subsystem or a scientific instrument, is dynamic and changes over the development lifetime of a project. Often the critical path at the start of preliminary design will be through a specific spacecraft subsystem while the final, delivered critical path item is often a scientific instrument that is delivered late. The research for this paper looks at the postulated critical path at different milestones, and the actual critical path item at final delivery, for a variety of NASA science missions to understand what elements are impacting the delivery schedule the most. Recommendations are made based on these quantitative results relative to what elements should potentially be considered more often in early development schedules to more robustly plan for development issues.


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    Titel :

    Space Chicken: A Historical Look at How the Critical Path Changes over a Mission’s Development


    Beteiligte:
    Bitten, Robert (Autor:in) / Shinn, Stephen (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    IEEE Aerospace Conference ; 2020 ; Big Sky, MT, United States


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-03-07


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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