Reliability Design Analysis for Space Systems

This paper presents a description of some of the problems encountered in the design of space systems and discusses some of the approaches, considerations, and analytic tools which may be useful in solving those problems. The techniques and problems to be discussed are; reliability estimation, weight-reliability tradeoffs, and spares and redundancy considerations. The analytic approaches discussed are meant to be representative of the types of analysis available and are used to illustrate some of the techniques which have been satisfactorily used on space programs.