session 1

Title

Quality and Safety, always a beginning!

Description

Implementing and maintaining a Safety and Quality Management System in Space Programmes is a great challenge we have better to entrust to well seasoned manpower. But a space programme is always somewhat new. New ambitions, new programme, new stakeholders, new workforce, new country... This is also an underestimated facet of the so-called « New Space ». How is it possible to set realistic goals, with real ambition, and ensure success in this challenging context? This session deals with the methods, tests, lessons learned, standards for analysis and mitigation of such risks to maintain the desired quality. It provides an opportunity for exchanges on all aspects of the life cycle (including design, development and production philosophy, operations) and associated risk management approach. It addresses every kind of space mission: transportation systems, orbital systems, exploration vehicles.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Dr. Manola Romero, 3AF, France;

• Co-Chair: Prof. Alexander S. Filatyev, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation;

• Rapporteur: Ms. Kaitlyn Holm, University of Pennsylvania, United States;