Building on past studies and current reliability prediction practice, the expected outcome of this project is a new handbook for reliability prediction  for space applcations. The handbook shall facilitate the following activities in practice: 

• support decision-making in all mission phases (from development to safe disposal according to the Space Debris Mitigation requirements),
• cover all technical domains (EEE, mechanical, miscellaneous domains…),
• account for improved performance and technical developments,
• provide approaches also to consider new (and future) technologies,
• consider all aspects of reliability and types of failures, including also failures related to degradation phenomena (wear-out, ageing),
• account for different failure causes (“random”, environment, human factor),
• cover both part and non-part related failures (e.g. due to design errors),
• generate credible results when compared to in-orbit feedback,
• ensure consistency and reduce uncertainty in reliability prediction by different manufacturers,
• be transparent in terms of its foundations and underlying assumptions,
• meet the needs of the space community and the different stakeholders (e.g. agencies, designers, manufacturers, operators, insurers…),
• be theoretically sound, but also pragmatic and practical to use,
• be sustainable, providing efficient maintenance and update capabilities.

Documents that become available throughout the project will be made available here.