Technical programme
IAC-20 — IAC CyberSpace Edition
D5. 53rd IAA SYMPOSIUM ON SAFETY, QUALITY AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN SPACE ACTIVITIES
Quality, safety, security… These domains reflect the same concern: how a complex space system can be developed and be operated in order to give its best with the proper robustness. In that environment, where radiations are not the least stress and possible ill-intentioned actions may occur, decreasing the level of failures in space activities is a must. Knowledge management, meaning proper capturing, capitalizing, protecting and sharing the knowledge, and application of lessons learned and experience, are key factors. This Symposium organized by the International Academy of Astronautics aims at arousing the discussion between professionals, and raising the awareness of the new generation on the various approaches to obtain and run reliable, and safe space systems: design solutions, validation and tests, software development, validation and security, methods, management approaches, regulations to improve the quality, efficiency, and collaborative ability of space programmes and space operations. All aspects are considered: risk management, complexity of systems and operations, knowledge and information management, human factors, economical constraints, international cooperation, norms, and standards.
- Coordinator
Jeanne Holm
City of Los Angeles — United StatesRoberta Mugellesi-Dow
European Space Agency (ESA) — United Kingdom
D5.1. Quality and Safety, always a beginning!
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.
- Co-Chair
Manola Romero
3AF — FranceAlexander S. Filatyev
Lomonosov Moscow State University — Russian Federation
- Rapporteur
Kaitlyn Holm
University of Pennsylvania — United States
D5.2. Knowledge management for space activities in the digital transformation age
In this age of big data, analytics, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IOT) and others, knowledge management has a key role to help decision makers in today’s competitive economy, by creating communities of shared and useful information. Digital transformation and innovations have changed how employees access and share the knowledge and therefore KM processes need to adapt to the new environment, by supporting and helping the users in how they collaborate and interact with knowledge on a daily basis. Key themes addressed during the session are strategies and tools for the sharing of existing knowledge to develop and sustain new projects, the impact of the internal social network in driving innovation and creating new knowledge, and processes and technologies that organizations are using to energize their ability to learn, innovate, and share knowledge. Examples of case studies of particular interest include successful projects and innovations in the application of knowledge management, grounded research in knowledge and risk management, methods that allow data, information or knowledge exchange within or amongst organizations in support of actual programmes, and capturing engineering knowledge and information in computer models.
- Co-Chair
Roberta Mugellesi-Dow
European Space Agency (ESA) — United KingdomPatrick Hambloch
The Planetary Society — Germany
- Rapporteur
Daniel Galarreta
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) — FranceJeanne Holm
City of Los Angeles — United States
D5.3. Space Environment and Effects on Space Missions
The space environment can strongly impact the performance and reliability of space missions. It has several natural and induced components, including high-energy radiation, plasma, atomic oxygen, planetary dust, extreme temperature, vacuum, micro-gravity, micrometeoroid and debris, molecular and particulate contamination, etc. Environmental conditions yield constraints at design phase, and important risks in the course of the mission. The evaluation of the nominal and worst-case conditions to be met, mitigation and protection options, and of their impact on missions and flight systems are thus of prime importance. This session will encompass the following topics: Space Weather, Plasma, Spacecraft Charging, Radiation, Atomic Oxygen, Planetary Dust, Molecular and Particulate Contamination, Plume Induced Contamination Effects and Interactions, Combined Environments - flight measurements; - physical processes; - prediction of nominal or worst case condition; - ground testing; - flight experiments and lessons learned; - modelling and prediction; thermos-optical degradation effects.
- Co-Chair
Jean-Francois Roussel
Office National d’Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) — FranceMENGU CHO
Kyushu Institute of Technology — Japan
- Rapporteur
Carlos Soares
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory — United States