Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel
Start Date
28-4-1998 2:00 PM
Description
During the early assembly missions the International Space Station could experience failures that will leave it single fault tolerant or could seriously reduce it’s power generating capability. These failures or reduction in power generating ability could endanger the crew, the station or completely bring ISS assembly to a halt until corrected. Recent analysis and planning have been completed that looked at critical hardware failures and recommended work around strategies, manifesting of spares or on-orbit stowage of spares. The implementation of this analysis will allow ISS assembly to continue with minimum impact. This report describes how the analysis was brought about, the analysis process and finally the implementation strategy recommended and being put into place.
Paper Session I-B - Report on the International Space Station's Planning for Critical Assembly Phase Failures
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel
During the early assembly missions the International Space Station could experience failures that will leave it single fault tolerant or could seriously reduce it’s power generating capability. These failures or reduction in power generating ability could endanger the crew, the station or completely bring ISS assembly to a halt until corrected. Recent analysis and planning have been completed that looked at critical hardware failures and recommended work around strategies, manifesting of spares or on-orbit stowage of spares. The implementation of this analysis will allow ISS assembly to continue with minimum impact. This report describes how the analysis was brought about, the analysis process and finally the implementation strategy recommended and being put into place.
Comments
Session Chairman: William V. Bates, Chief of Staff ISS Program Office, Johnson Space Center
Session Organizer: Ellen Prince Brown