Traditional reliability design concepts, and even extensive redundancy, fail to achieve the necessary reliability potential required for long term orbital and space missions. A design and operational approach allowing system restoration through maintenance can significantly arrest reliability degradation for missions extending up to several years This paper discusses some facets of the reliability-maintenance relationship, including accessibility, spares, crew duty cycle, and design standardization. An example application demonstrates the effectiveness of the maintenance approach while utilizing conservative state-of-the-art failure rates. Although the concepts described are somewhat theoretical, analogies in past experience substantiate them.


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    Title :

    Exploiting the Reliability-Maintenance Relationship for Manned Missions of Extended Duration


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE World Congress & Exhibition ; 1964



    Publication date :

    1964-01-01




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English