TECHNIQUES FOR ENSURING HIGH RELIANCE THROUGH ACCEPTANCE TESTING ON IDCSP SATELLITE,
Abstract
The Initial Defense Communication Satellite Program (IDCSP) was declared operational in July 1967. As of May 1, 1968, the performance of the 17 IDCSP spacecraft indicates a mean time to failure (MTTF) in excess of 6.4 years at a 90% confidence level. Compared to the 1.5-year requirement and 3-year goal, the performance is noteworthy. This achievement is due in large measure to the program philosophy employed from initial design to final spacecraft acceptance test. Embodied in the text is a brief summary of this adopted approach. The principal thesis of the paper is a description of a documentation and review technique for assessing in-process failures in a spacecraft production environment. It is shown that the review technique is essential to preserving the analytically determined reliability of the design. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0682944
Entities
People
- E. I. Roberts
- E. T. Bobak
- P. C. Mclellan
Organizations
- The Aerospace Corporation