Radiation Data Collection and Risk Assessment

Jesse Leitner

NASA NTRS · 20230015242

Radiation Data Collection and Risk Assessment

Abstract

In order to advance the approach for parts assurance in the space community to the current decade and to remain nimble for the future, NASA GSFC, in collaboration with the Aerospace Corporation’s Mission Success Improvement Workshop and broad space community participation, has been reviewing and categorizing 40 years’ worth of on-orbit anomaly data to support broad assessments of radiation-related risk and the development of tools to rigorously assess risk in general project situations. Part of the changing approach in parts assurance involves phasing in the use of COTS parts (or as preferred, alternate grade parts). This talk will convey some of the early findings of the effort, including the fact that expanded use of COTS parts does not increase radiation-related risk, while also pointing out that a very small percentage of parts in a typical parts list are actives and thus require radiation assessment. These are important because they remove radiation as a factor in broad consideration in the use of COTS, without diminishing the importance of addressing the effects of radiation in space.

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