Lunar Lander Design for Operations and Supportability (DFO&S)
- Paper number
IAC-08.A3.2.INT8
- Author
Mr. Glen Stromme, United Space Alliance, LLC, United States
- Coauthor
Mr. Gregory McClung, United Space Alliance, United States
- Year
2008
- Abstract
The Lunar Lander Program is understandably focused on minimum functionality and minimum weight. However, once a closed design is achieved, the focus should shift to development of a Lunar Lander with the lowest possible life cycle costs. Operations and Support costs can be 70
A lunar Lander operation does not start with the first lunar mission in 2016. It starts now, in 2008 with Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and incorporation of its data into operational analysis tools that will used to make design trades. Design for Operations and Supportability identifies and trades critical life cycle cost and risk drivers and is key to designing for operations cost effectiveness and mission success. By employing effective “Customer-Developer-Operator” relationships early in the lunar program, costs can be addressed in the design tradeoffs to ensure an efficient program that can be supported throughout the lunar exploration life-cycle.
This paper offers a roadmap to DFOS that will minimize the Lunar Lander life cycle costs. This includes:
• Establishing realistic system requirements based on a well defined Concept of Operations and a disciplined method of preventing requirements creep • Decision-making responsibilities, metrics, and examples for system effectiveness and affordability • Role and examples of lessons learned and cost analysis and modeling used to set priorities for capabilities, initiatives, standards, and modeling and simulation • Inserting new technology and tools that will allow the team to balance variables and make tradeoffs between systems performance, availability, operations process efficiency, human factors, and costs based on tangible data • This paper will address the roll of end users and operations during systems feasibility, systems engineering, design, and production, which ensures mission success and the proper balance of system effectiveness and life-cycle supportability and total ownership cost. To be successful, Design for Operations and Supportability processes must be highly apparent in program metrics, program and team reviews, enterprise information systems, cost modeling, systems engineering, logistics, operations strategies and plans, and contracting and supply chain strategies. Copyright © 2008 by United Space Alliance, LLC.
- Abstract document
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