Redundancy and failure analysis should extend beyond end items and the subsystem under design and consider potential failure scenarios for all relevant interfacing subsystems.
INSIGHT: October 2021
Lucy will travel ambitious trajectory to examine remnants from the early solar system.
Kevin Rivers discusses knowledge sharing at NASA’s Langley Research Center.
Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment Principal Investigator Mike Hecht discusses the MOXIE technology demonstration that’s generating oxygen on the Red Planet.
High-visibility close call yields timeless lessons learned.
Working on international programs and projects makes good collaboration essential.
Rocket plane pushed the boundaries of aeronautics at dawn of the space race.
Lucy Deputy Project Systems Engineer Mike Sekerak discusses the first space mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroid swarms.
Lucy is the first mission to explore the Jupiter Trojans – two swarms of asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit, leading and trailing the giant planet by sixty degrees.