How E0-1 used operations to cost-effectively mitigate risk [NASA technology validation mission]

Author

Mandl, Dan ; Howard, Joe

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

In recent years, NASA has been using the “Better, Faster, Cheaper” paradigm to create its missions. However, missions continue to get more complex despite being budget constrained. The first area to suffer in this situation is frequently the risk mitigation effort. Recent mission failures at NASA have caused the risk tolerance pendulum to swing back towards increased aversion to risk and thereby requiring more risk management in the development of missions and their corresponding spacecrafts. The need at this time is to find ways to manage risk in a cost-effective manner. This paper is about the steps that Earth-observing 1 (EO-1), a Technology Validation mission, took to make risk management more cost-effective

Keywords

artificial satellites; reliability; remote sensing; risk management; space research; Earth-observing 1 mission; NASA; cost-effective manner; mission development; mission failures; remote sensing satellite; risk management; risk mitigation; spacecraft; technology validation mission; Costs; Instruments; NASA; Paper technology; Personnel; Risk management; Space technology; Space vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2001, IEEE Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Big Sky, MT

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6599-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2001.931740

Filename

931740