session 3

Title

Avoiding in Orbit Failures by a better Knowledge of the Environment

Description

An increasing member of anomalies and failures observed on operating spacecraft are due to space environment causes. A better prevention requests actions in various fields which will be addressed by the session: - Analysis of the observed failures (lessons learned) - Better knowledge of the space environment by on-board measurements - Good engineering tools: environment models, software for prediction of the effects,, etc. - Space weather activities.

Date

2008-10-03

Time

10:00

Room

Castle 2

IPC members

• Chairman: Dr. Magdeleine Dinguirard, Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA), France;

• Chairman: Dr. Tateo Goka, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan;