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1. Professional Development Short Course On:
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1. Spacecraft Systems Reliability and
Assessment. Quality, reliability, and confidence levels.
Reliability block diagrams and proper use of reliability
predictions. Redundancy pro's and con's.
Environmental stresses and derating.
Summary
2. Quality Assurance and Component Selection.
Quality assurance, reliability, and testing are critical Screening and qualification testing. Accelerated testing.
elements in low-cost space missions. The selection of Using plastic parts (PEMs) reliably.
lower cost parts and the most effective use of
redundancy require careful tradeoff analysis when 3. Radiation and Survivability. The space radiation
designing new space missions. Designing for low cost environment. Total dose. Stopping power. MOS
and allowing some risk are new ways of doing business response. Annealing and super-recovery. Displacement
in today's cost-conscious environment. This course damage.
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missions to pinpoint the key issues and tradeoffs in and burn-out. Critical charge. Testing for single event
design, reviews, quality assurance, and testing of effects. Upset rates. Shielding and other mitigation
spacecraft. Lessons learned from past successes and techniques.
failures are discussed and trends for future missions 5. ISO 9000. Process control through ISO 9001 and
are highlighted. AS9100.
6. Software Quality Assurance and Testing. The
Instructor magnitude of the software QA problem. Characteristics
Eric Hoffman has 40 years of space experience, of good software process. Software testing and when is
including 19 years as the Chief Engineer of the Johns it finished?
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory 7. The Role of the I&T Engineer. Why I&T planning
Space Department, which has designed must be started early.
and built 64 spacecraft and nearly 200 8. Integrating I&T into electrical, thermal, and
instruments. His experience includes mechanical designs. Coupling I&T to mission
systems engineering, design integrity, operations.
performance assurance, and test 9. Ground Support Systems. Electrical and
standards. He has led many of APL's mechanical ground support equipment (GSE). I&T
system and spacecraft conceptual designs and facilities. Clean rooms. Environmental test facilities.
coauthored APL's quality assurance plans. He is an
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management. 14. Case Studies. NEAR, Ariane 5, Mid-course
• Modern, efficient integration and test practices. Space Experiment (MSX).
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4. High Reliability: Lessons from NASA
1. Apply effective design principles, including
extensive and meticulous design reviews.
2. Control and screen all parts and processes.
3. Thoroughly inspect and test.
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5. Why Do Spacecraft Fail?
Independent studies and surveys have found that the causes of spacecraft
failure are, in order of importance:
1. Poor design
2. Misjudged environments
3. Software
4. Human error (particularly mission ops)
5. Interconnects
6. Mechanically deployed systems
7. Piece part failure
Note that parts screening addresses only the 5th or 7th most prominent cause.
Refs: H. Hecht and M. Hecht, Reliability Prediction
for Spacecraft. RADC-TR-85-229, 1985
R. Fleeter, The Logic of Microspace (Kluwer
and Microcosm, 2000)
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6. Performance Assurance Philosophies
Performance Assurance Philosophies Are Changing
Old New
Risk Risk Avoidance Risk Management
Parts Class S or B preferred Learning to work with BCP and PEMs
Parts Testing 100% inspection Selective test/re-test
Fabrication NHB5300.4 BCP, ISO 9000, and AS9100
Software Software “artistes” Disciplined software engineers
System Test Layered, multiple retest Testing larger assemblies at once
Redundancy Part and box level Box and spacecraft level
PAE Philosophy Outside the team; policeman Inside the team; facilitator
Big Worry Parts, interconnects Software, interconnects, human error
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7. Risk Management In A Nutshell
Risk = probability of occurrence x consequence if it occurs
Risk management asks “What could possibly go wrong?”
Once you know this, ask such things as …
“What is the probability of the bad thing happening?”
“How much will it affect the project?”
“What would we do if it happened?”
“How can we reduce the adverse affects?”
“How can we prevent it?”
Simply assuming that everything will work is a worst practice. Avoid it.
Bad things happen on all aerospace projects … anticipate them.
after D. Phillips, The Software Project
Manager’s Handbook, IEEE 1998
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8. The Journal of the Reliability Analysis Center
download DEMO version of PRISM from RAC web site at
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10. Design Review Principles
Determine what must be reviewed
– new designs?
– “heritage” designs?
– purchased subsystems?
– software, firmware?
– test equipment, ground support equipment?
Establish hierarchy of reviews
Make sure design and requirements are stable
Schedule the reviews for maximum effectiveness
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11. Design Review Presenters
Help reviewers understand the design
– adopt a pedagogic attitude
– show requirements
– present appropriate level of detail
– show concern items, possible solutions
Watch the clock!
– Anticipate questions - include answers in presentation
– Avoid long debates with reviewers
• action item
• splinter meeting
– Learn the projection equipment
Serve as ad hoc reviewer
Accept comments objectively, non-defensively
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12. Configuration Management: What It Includes
Design Specs Fabrication Controls
Purchase Specs – processes
Interface Control Documents – fabrication control cards
Design Reviews – workmanship standards
Drafting Standards Parts and material traceability
– content and format Non-conformances
– checking
Deviations and Waivers
– release
– changes Material Review Board
Change Control and Incorporation Configuration Accounting
Change Control Board Test plans, procedures, data
Software Problem Reports sheets
S/W Unit Development Folders Configuration audits
Drawing Numbers, Serial Numbers – functional
– physical
As-built Documentation
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13. ISO 9000
• ISO 9000:2000 is a series of three worldwide standards that
define the elements and structure of QA systems.
• ISO 9000 registers a quality system. It emphasizes management
and process (unlike, for example, QML, which certifies a hi-rel
product - or - NASA NHB-5300.4, which inspects in quality)
• ISO 9001, the standard most applicable to spacecraft
development, covers 8 specific areas (but in only 16 pages!).
• ISO 9000 requires you to: demonstrate top management commitment
identify your processes
document them
scrupulously follow them
continually improve them
• But ISO 9000 does not guarantee high quality product.
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14. SAE AS9100
• Quality system requirements for suppliers to the aerospace industry, issued Aug
2001. Originally AS 9000 (1997), expanded to address international requirements,
now approved by Asian and European aerospace companies as well.
• Approximately 80 additional requirements plus 18 amplifications of ISO 9001.
• Intent is to achieve significant quality improvements and cost reductions by
placing requirement for conformance on aerospace parts and process suppliers.
• Principal document: Quality Systems - Aerospace - Model For Quality Assurance
In Design, Development, Production, Installation And Servicing
• Why do companies want AS9100? Market Pressure … many organizations decide
to implement and register to AS9100 to assure customers that the company has a
good Quality Management System (QMS) in place. Such companies typically
meet customer expectations better than those without an effective QMS. Many
aerospace organizations now require their suppliers to have AS9100.
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15. Software Quality Assurance
Software has become increasingly important to overall reliability.
But flight software is difficult to create because …
• It’s often one-of-a-kind.
• It’s usually multi-tasked, realtime, interrupt driven.
• Extreme reliability is required.
• It must be remotely reconfigurable and maintainable.
• It’s often designed while flight hardware & MOps are still in flux.
– interface definitions may occur late
– ConOps may arrive late
– schedules are tightly coupled
• The flight h/w and development tools greatly lag ground-based.
• Competitive bidding can interfere with optimizing requirements.
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16. Capability Maturity Model 5 – Optimized
(CMM) In A Nutshell Process Change Management
Technology Change Management
Defect Prevention
4 - Managed
Quality Management
Quantitative Process Management
3 - Defined
Peer Reviews
Intergroup Coordination
Product Engineering
Integrated Software Management
Training Program
Organization Process Definition
Organization Process Focus
2 - Repeatable
Configuration Management
Quality Assurance
Subcontract Management
Project Tracking & Oversight
Project Planning
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17. Early Software Reviews Pay Off!
Errors found in 6,877,000 source lines of debugged code
(including comments) on 28 projects. (* = detectable by review)
Other, unspecified 5% Requirements 8%
Test definition & execution 3%
Integration 9%
* Features / Functionality 16%
*
Implementation & coding 10%
*
* Data definition / handling 22%
Structural control flow
*
& sequencing 25%
*
System, software architecture 2%
Slice 1 Slice 2 Slice 3 Slice 4 Slice 5
Ref: Software Engineering: A Holistic
View,” Bruce Blum, Oxford Slice 7
Slice 6 Press, 1992 Slice 8 Slice 9
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18. Code Walkthrough / Fagan Inspection
• A very formalized, intense form of code walkthrough is called a “software
inspection.”
• Requires a study period of the requirements, design, and code prior to the
actual review.
• Some or all of the following players:
presenter (lead reader, usually the designer/programmer)
moderator (coordinator, chairman)
recorder (scribe, secretary)
1-2 other technical reviewers
* maintenance oracle * = optional
* standards bearer
* user representative
* system liaison (system engineer)
• Performed module by module, after first
good, clean compilation
• Can be highly effective
Ref: Fagan, M., “Design and Code Inspection,”
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19. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
(courtesy R. C. Moore, APL)
A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated array of logic
elements in which the logic network can be programmed into the device
after its manufacture. Most FPGAs for space flight are programmed
once and retain their programming permanently. FPGAs for space flight
have built-in single-event upset (SEU) protection.
Numb Number Total ionizing Bit error rate
FPGA Gate Propagation delay, Single-event latch-
Vendor er of of user dose (TID) (errors /
Family length clock rate up LET threshold
gates I/O pins immunity bit-day)
Atmel AT40K 0.35µm 50k 240 18 ns / 60 MHz 200k rad(Si) > 70 MeVcm2/mg 10–9
Actel RTAX-S 0.15µm 250k 684 10 ns / 100 MHz 200k rad(Si) >120 MeVcm2/mg 10–10
Aeroflex UT6325 0.25µm 320k 365 12 ns / 80 MHz 300k rad(Si) >120 MeVcm2/mg 10–9
Actel RTAX4000S --- 500k 840 --- 300k rad(Si) 104 MeVcm2/mg 10–10
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RCM
20. Software Testing
Defect Testing
Design tests that will cause the system to perform incorrectly, and
thereby expose a defect.
Interface tests - use knowledge of functional specification,
structure, and implementation to design tests that will exercise each
object and message type in the system.
Never permit defect testing to replace static verification (e.g., code
walkthroughs, formal methods).
Testing Methods
White Box - Based on detailed knowledge of design
(Ex: programmer testing her own module)
Black Box - Based on functional requirements (spec) only
(Ex: a Red Team conducting a test)
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21. How Well Are We Doing?
Error Seeding
Error Seeding is the process of adding known faults
intentionally in a program to:
-- monitor the rate of detection and removal
-- estimate the number of faults remaining in the program.
Don’t forget to remove the test faults! (Red Tag
items)
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22. Earth’s Van Allen Radiation Belts
Courtesy Aerospace Corporation
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23. normal
Total Dose Effects
Trapped charge in
n-channel MOSFET
irradiated
NASA ASIC Guide:
Assuring ASICS for Space
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25. Acceleration Factors (Example)
• Test: 1000 cycles with ∆Ttest = 125o – (-55o) = 180o C
• Space application with ∆Tapp = 55o – (-30o) = 85o C with relative
humidity assumed equal and the difference of relatively short dwell
times at the upper temperatures ignored
AF = (180 / 85)4 = 20
• The 1000 cycle temperature cycle test simulates 20,000 cycles in
space – e.g., for a 90-110 minute low earth orbit, this test
represents 3.4-4.2 years. Mission time simulated is even greater
for deep space missions with a minimum of planetary shadowing
and controlled sun angles
• Similarly, 1000 hours at 85º C and 85% RH simulates 70,000
hours or about 8 years of ground storage at 55º C and 40% RH
using factors two and three.
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26. What About Plastic Parts?
• Flight integrated circuits (ICs) have traditionally
been required to be hermetic; plastic-encapsulated
microcircuits (PEMs) were forbidden.
• Hi-rel, hermetic, military and space grade parts have declined to less than 1%
of the total IC market (from 67% in 1965).
• Fortunately, PEM processes and our understanding of the physics of failure
have improved greatly.
• The best of today’s PEMs can be used for flight, provided proper
qualification, screening, storage, design, and fabrication processes are
implemented.
• Storage discipline - from the time the part is manufactured until it arrives on
orbit - is especially critical.
• Proper use of PEMs can sometimes increase reliability. Ref: “Reliable Application of Plastic Encapsulated
Microcircuits for Small Satellites,” W. Ash and
E. Hoffman, Proc. 8th Annual Conf. on Small
Sats., August 1994
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27. It all begins with ...
... the VERIFICATION MATRIX
Show-- by one of 4 methods-- that every requirement is met.
Test. Example: “The transmitter output power shall exceed +34 dBm.” Tests
for requirements verification should be performed at the highest possible level of
assembly.
Demonstration. Example: “The spacecraft shall demonstrate electro-
magnetic self-compatibility.” Often used when requirements contain phrases
such as “shall support” or “shall not preclude” because of difficulty of proving that
these requirements are met under all reasonable circumstances.
Analysis. Example: “For slews up to 110º, the slew rate shall be at least
0.5º/sec.” Also used for requirements verified “by similarity” to previous designs.
Analysis should be validated wherever possible by correlation to test data.
Inspection. Example: “The G&C application software shall be coded in C++.”
In addition to indicating the verification method, the verification matrix must provide
traceability to the (configuration managed) test procedures or analyses used to verify the
requirement.
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34. MSX Mission
Midcourse Space Experiment
• BMDO-sponsored mission to demonstrate a variety of multispectral
imaging technologies for identifying and tracking ballistic missiles during
flight.
• Observe Earth and its limb and search for signatures of experimental
missile launches across the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared parts of the
spectrum.
• Spacecraft contamination experiment
• Space-Based Visible experiment (MIT Lincoln Lab)
• Design requirement: 4 years (goal: 5 years), 18 months IR cryogen
• Launched April 1996 from VAFB
• Over 12 years of continuous operation. Spacecraft decommissioned June
2008.
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