Article | REF: AG1561 V1

An approach for designing system dedicated to exploration

Author: Stéphane GRES

Publication date: April 10, 2017

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2. The five invariants of system safety

2.1 Shared definitions and standards for safety

Accidents most often occur at the interfaces between the assembly of several systems, due to misunderstandings between the various designers or between disciplines.

One example is the destruction of the Mars Climate Orbiter on September 24, 1999 . The probe, programmed to use the metric system, received data in Anglo-Saxon units of measurement.

As a result, instead of entering orbit at an altitude of around 150 km, it plunged into the Martian atmosphere at an altitude of 57 km,...

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