The Cost of Unreliability in the Avionics Suite of a Launch Vehicle The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Incorporated

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Rosch, Gene, author.

Conference Name:

Aerospace Technology Conference & Exposition (1990-10-01 : Long Beach, California, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1990

Summary:

AbstractThe main objective of the Advanced Launch System (ALS) program is to realize a substantial reduction in recurring launch costs over present launch systems. A methodology is presented for assessing the impact of the reliability of the avionics suite on the recurring launch cost of the ALS. The methodology is illustrated by focusing on two architectures. The first is a distillation of a typical architecture for this type of application. The second is a simplified implementation of the Advanced Information Processing System (AIPS) technology developed at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Incorporated Both architectures utilize redundancy of hardware to tolerate faults. The key contributors to the cost of unreliability are identified and modeled utilizing Markov modeling techniques for each of the two architectures. The results are presented along with the more traditional costs for these avionics suites

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Publisher Number:

901837

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Restricted for use by site license