How E0-1 used operations to cost-effectively mitigate risk [NASA technology validation mission]

In recent years, NASA has been using the “Better, Faster, Cheaper” paradigm to create its missions. However, missions continue to get more complex despite being budget constrained. The first area to suffer in this situation is frequently the risk mitigation effort. Recent mission failures at NASA have caused the risk tolerance pendulum to swing back towards increased aversion to risk and thereby requiring more risk management in the development of missions and their corresponding spacecrafts. The need at this time is to find ways to manage risk in a cost-effective manner. This paper is about the steps that Earth-observing 1 (EO-1), a Technology Validation mission, took to make risk management more cost-effective