Title :
Dependability and safety at the European Space Agency — Organisation overview and recent study initiatives
Author :
Preyssl, Christian
Author_Institution :
Product Assurance & Safety Dept., Eur. Space Agency ESA - ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Abstract :
The Product Assurance and Safety Department of the European Space Agency ESA is part of the Directorate of Technical and Quality Management. The Quality Dependability and Product Assurance Support Division and the Independent Safety Office deal with safety and dependability. Among the recent safety and dependability study initiatives is the development of a catalogue of failure event input data and of the associated safety & dependability analysis elements - denoted "CFDA".
Keywords :
aerospace safety; organisational aspects; quality management; Directorate-of Technical and-Quality Management; European Space Agency; Independent Safety Office; Product Assurance Support Division; Product Assurance-and Safety Department; Quality Dependability; organisation overview; space flight systems; Aerospace safety; Hazards; Humans; Product safety; Project management; Quality management; Risk management; Software safety; Space missions; Space technology; dependability; product assurance; safety; space flight systems;
Conference_Titel :
Reliability, Maintainability and Safety, 2009. ICRMS 2009. 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chengdu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4903-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4905-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICRMS.2009.5270136
