The reliability.space project aims at developing a new methodology for reliability prediction for space products to overcome limitations of the methods and approaches currently used. The project is financed by the European Space Agency under the General Studies Programme.
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News
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October 30, 2020, today, we closed the contract. After 3 years of intense work, discussions, interesting debates, challenges, ups and downs including the COVID-19 situation worldwide we finally closed the project with some time delay but successful. In short - a great project is closed!
We are confident that this is not the end of the journey of reliability.space but the beginning. We are looking forward to the future of reliability.space and the applications in practice!
- October 15, 2020 - The complete documentation of our reliability.space project has been submitted to ESA. One of the last steps for contract closure.
- Final presentation to ESA, 18.09.2020. The COVID-19 situiation in Europe still does not allow for an physical presentation but we had lively and intresting discussions also in a web
presentation.
- September 14, 2020 - Finally, we have published our last fact sheet for TN-06/07.
- August 24, 2020 - After a while of intense work we published today the fact sheets for TN-3/4 and TN-05.
- July 9, 2020 - Sucessful project meeting for TN-07. Unfortunatly, we have a project delay due to COVID-19 situation in Europe.
- December 17, 2019 - Sucessful project meeting for TN-06. Case Study and results presented.
- July 9, 2019 - Sucessful project meeting for TN-05.
- April 16, 2019 - Sucessful intermediate review workshop of our activity @ESTEC.
- March 24, 2019 - Fact sheet for TN-02 is available
- October 29, 2018 - Fact sheet for TN-01 is avaialble
- July 13, 2018 - Kick-off Task 5
- May 14, 2018 - Sucessful project meeting for TN-03/TN-04
- January 24, 2018 - Sucessful project meeting for TN-02
- October 24, 2017 - Sucessful project meeting for TN-01
- August 29, 2017 - reliability.space was kicked off at ESTEC
- July 17, 2017 - Matrisk and ESA sign contracts
MOtivation
Reliability goals are defined for most ESA projects and reliability predictions are performed at all design levels. The most widely used methodology by industry for reliability prediction is MIL-HDBK-217. This has become out-dated and has limitations due to the obsolescence of its part type failure rate prediction models and the database incompleteness. Moreover, current prediction models are mostly addressing random failures while a significant amount of in-orbit anomalies are not due to random failures and thus are not covered in current methods (e.g. design and/or manufacturing related failures).
Goal
The main technical objective of the reliability.space project is the development of a new methodology for reliability prediction for space products aiming to overcome the problems and limitations of the methods and approaches currently used in practice. The final outcome of the project will be a handbook for reliability prediction in space applications, which will serve as an input for the development of a new ECSS handbook.
Consortium
The reliability.space consortium is lead by Swiss engineering consultancy Matrisk GmbH. Consortium members are Airbus Defence and Space, Thales Alenia Space, Serma Technologies and Sarel Consult.
Contact
contact@matrisk.com
Matrisk GmbH
Alte Obfelderstrasse 50
8910 Affoltern am Albis
Switzerland
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