The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has embarked on an ambitious program to return humans to the moon and beyond. As NASA moves forward in the development and design of new launch vehicles for future space exploration, it must fully consider the implications that rule-based requirements of redundancy or fault tolerance have on system reliability/risk. These considerations include common cause failure, increased system complexity, combined serial and parallel configurations, and the impact of design features implemented to control premature activation. These factors and others must be considered in trade studies to support design decisions that balance safety, reliability, performance and system complexity to achieve a relatively simple, operable system that provides the safest and most reliable system within the specified performance requirements. This paper describes conditions under which additional functional redundancy can impede improved system reliability. Examples from current NASA programs including the Ares I Upper Stage will be shown.


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    Title :

    Factors which Limit the Value of Additional Redundancy in Human Rated Launch Vehicle Systems


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA SpaceOps 2008


    Publication date :

    2008-05-12


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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