A Mariner Jupiter/Saturn mission has been planned for 1977. System reliability questions are discussed, taking into account the actual and design lifetime, causes of mission termination, in-flight failures and their consequences for the mission, and the use of redundancy to avoid failures. The design process employed optimizes the use of proven subsystem and system designs and then makes the necessary improvements to increase the lifetime as required.
Reliability considerations in long-life outer planet spacecraft system design
International Astronautical Federation, International Astronautical Congress
1975-09-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
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