Webinar Product Assurance Approach – Small Sats Testing

Product Assurance Approach For New Space Missions

The current exuberance of the New Space market is characterized, among other factors, by the use of COTS components and minimized requirements in product assurance and testing policy. This ultimately results in relatively high failure rates of the missions, which have been allowed by the relatively low maturity of the New Space sector and the just-for-demonstration purpose of many of the missions.

However, recent and planned strong investments in smallsat constellations require a mastered reliability of the platforms and payloads and a risk management strategy. This means that smallsat builders need to develop a capability in risk management, contrarily to the risk avoidance of the traditional space sector.