Safety and disaster preparedness for strategic global infrastructure: Communication satellite systems

Author

Lawal, L.S. ; Chatwin, C.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. & Design, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

18-20 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The paper seeks to examine the importance of safety and disaster preparedness for strategic global infrastructure communication satellite systems using a design approach based on space qualified components with: system level fault protection, integrated redundant on-board data handling systems, identified and potential satellite single point of failures, in-orbit satellite spares for risk mitigation, ground station design considerations including provisioning of cold and hot redundancy units and subsystem equipment to preclude ground station failures.

Keywords

redundancy; satellite communication; telecommunication network reliability; cold redundancy units; communication satellite systems; disaster preparedness; ground station design; ground station failures; hot redundancy units; in-orbit satellite spares; integrated redundant on-board data handling systems; risk mitigation; safety preparedness; satellite failure point; space qualified components; strategic global infrastructure; subsystem equipment; system level fault protection; Communication Satellite; Failure Analysis; Risk Mitigation and Business Continuity; Safety Measures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

System Safety 2010, 5th IET International Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2010.0810

Filename

5712314