MIRCE MECHANICS ANALYSIS OF IN-SERVICE RELIABILITY OF NASA-CONTRACTED COMMERCIAL RE-SUPPLY SERVICES

Jezdimir Knezevic

Abstract


The main purpose of this paper is to apply Mirce Mechanics to the analysis of in-service reliability of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation and Orbital Sciences Corporation, organizations that have been selected by NASA to participate in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, COTS. The reason for this is the fact that at the moment of writing this paper, both CRS Programmes are out of action due to catastrophic launch failures that took place on 28th June 2015 and 28th of October 2014, respectively. It is expected that analysis performed on the past missions, conducted by both corporations, based on the publicly available information, will get incites into their practices and experiences gained, as well as highlighting the areas of potential applications of the Mirce Mechanics based knowledge to increase in the probability of the successful continuations of  NASA-contracted Commercial Resupply Services.

Keywords


Mirce Mechanics, In-service Reliability, NASA, Contracting for in-service performance

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