NASA has discovered wiring damage issues in every crewed vehicle system, but early indications suggest the new generation of vehicles appears to benefit from more simplified designs and lower technician traffic during integration.
Setting up an efficient governing structure is an essential skill leaders and managers use to be more effective on their programs or projects.
Employing qualified human factors personnel on a design team from the start of a program or project has proven to be successful and effective.
A good leader can enhance a team’s performance using trust and humility.
Testing and investigation identified an unexpected over-voltage condition as the proximate cause of failure of the radar instrument portion of the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission.
Learn to ask good questions to gather important details about a project.
Redundancy and failure analysis should extend beyond end items and the subsystem under design and consider potential failure scenarios for all relevant interfacing subsystems.
Kevin Rivers discusses knowledge sharing at NASA’s Langley Research Center.
Working on international programs and projects makes good collaboration essential.
