Economics of Reliability for Spacecraft Computers

Abstract

To achieve an economically optimum level of reliability each improvement step is warranted only if the expected reduction in cost of failure exceeds the cost of the improvement. To this end, techniques for calculating cost of failure are described, in particular a new technique for evaluating cost of failure for long-time spacecraft missions. Guidelines for assessment of the economic impact of various improvement techniques are presented.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 08, 1971
Accession Number
AD0736760

Entities

People

  • H. Hecht

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Artificial Satellites
  • California
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Economics
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Guidance
  • Long Life
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Spacecraft
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space