Technical programme
IAC-08 — 59th International Astronautical Congress
D5. 41ST SYMPOSIUM ON SAFETY AND QUALITY IN SPACE ACTIVITIES
This Symposium organized by the International Academy of Astronautics addresses management approaches, methods, design solutions and regulations to improve the quality and efficiency of space programs. All aspects are considered: risk from space environment, complexity of systems and operations, human factors, economical constraints, international cooperation, norms and standards.
- Coordinator
Max Grimard
World Space Week Association — France
D5.1. Safety of Space Tourism and Associated Regulations
Opening space to ordinary citizens is both a great economic and human outlook and a great challenge. One of the main requirements is to deal properly with all safety issues. The goal of the session is to take part in the case for space tourism safety, by identifying, evaluating, illustrating the various aspects contributing to it. Examples are welcome from the aeronautics sector, which brings an interesting lighting of certification and implementation of international and local regulations.
- Chairman
Manola Romero
3AF — FranceGarett Smith
Cosmica Spacelines — France
D5.2. Quality and Knowledge Management in Aerospace Companies
Working on complex space missions requires virtual teaming, learning lessons from the past, transferring knowledge from experts to younger generations, and developing deep expertise within an organization. • How are aerospace companies managing the ability to control quality and share knowledge? • What solutions are in place to work across corporate and international boundaries? • How is knowledge captured, shared, and used to drive innovation? This session focuses on the processes and technologies that companies (and agencies) are using to sustain, energize and invigorate their ability to learn, innovate, achieve quality and share knowledge. Case studies and defined approaches will discuss: - Analysis of successful projects and innovations in the application of quality and knowledge management - Approaches to risk and opportunity management - Capture of technical expertise and lessons learned from previous successful projects that are applicable to new programs and focus on driving innovation - Solutions used for anomaly resolution and tracking systems, such as fault tree analysis and FMECA - Failure recovery and preventative measures that relate to the application of quality and knowledge management practices.
- Chairman
Jeanne Holm
City of Los Angeles — United StatesRoberta Mugellesi-Dow
European Space Agency (ESA) — United Kingdom
- Rapporteur
Max Grimard
World Space Week Association — France
D5.3. Avoiding in Orbit Failures by a better Knowledge of the Environment
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.
- Chairman
Magdeleine Dinguirard
Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) — FranceTateo Goka
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan