Over the last few years, NASA has been evaluating various vehicle designs for multiple proposed design reference missions (DRM) beyond low Earth orbit in support of its Exploration Systems Development (ESD) programs. This paper addresses several of the proposed missions and the analysis techniques used to assess the key risk metric, probability of loss of crew (LOC). Probability of LOC is a metric used to assess the safety risk as well as a design requirement. These assessments or studies were categorized as LOC achievability studies to help inform NASA management as to what "ball park" estimates of probability of LOC could be achieved for each DRM and were eventually used to establish the corresponding LOC requirements. Given that details of the vehicles and mission are not well known at this time, the ground rules, assumptions, and consistency across the programs become the important basis of the assessments as well as for the decision makers to understand.


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    Title :

    Probability of Loss of Crew Achievability Studies for NASA's Exploration Systems Development


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    Conference:

    International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis ; 2015 ; Sun Valley, ID, United States


    Publication date :

    2015-04-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English