One of the goals of this chapter is to provide sufficient information so that you can develop a manufacturing process for a potential launch vehicle. With the variety of manufacturing options available, you might ask how this can possibly be done in the span of a single chapter. Actually, it will be quite simple because a basic manufacturing process is nothing more than a set of logical steps that are iterated until they produce a desired product. Although these statements seem simple and logical, don't let this simplicity fool you. Manufacturing problems with launch vehicles and their subassemblies have been the primary cause of project failures because the vehicle concept delivered to the manufacturing floor could not be built as designed.


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    Title :

    Development of a Launch Vehicle Manufacturing Process, Chapter 4


    Contributors:
    J. Vickers (author)

    Publication date :

    2002


    Size :

    18 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English