NASA NTRS · 20140011718
Lessons We Learned Designing and Building the Chandra Telescope
Abstract
2014 marks the crystal (15th) anniversary of the launch of the Chandra X‐ray Observatory. This paper offers some of the major lessons learned by some of the key members of the Chandra Telescope team. We offer some of the lessons gleaned from our experiences developing, designing, building and testing the telescope and its subsystems, with 15 years of hindsight. Among the topics to be discussed are the early developmental tests, known as VETA‐I and VETA‐II, requirements derivation, the impact of late requirements and reflection on the conservatism in the design process.
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Arenberg, Jonathan, Matthews, Gary, Atkinson, C., Cohen, L., Golisano, C., Havey, K., Hefner, K., Jones, C., Kegley, J., Knollenberg, P., Lavoie, T., Oliver, J., Plucinsky, P., Tananbaun, H., Texter, S., Weisskopf, M.. 2014-06-22. Lessons We Learned Designing and Building the Chandra Telescope. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20140011718
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