Ten years of Chandra: reflecting back on engineering lessons learned during the design, fabrication, integration, test, and verification of NASA's great x-ray observatory

Gary Matthews; Keith Havey Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.858268

4 August 2010 Ten years of Chandra: reflecting back on engineering lessons learned during the design, fabrication, integration, test, and verification of NASA's great x-ray observatory

Gary Matthews, Keith Havey Jr.

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Proceedings Volume 7738, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IV; 77380Y (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858268
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2010, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

This paper emphasizes how the Chandra telescope hardware was designed, tested, verified, and accepted for flight to benefit all future missions that must find efficient ways to drive out cost and schedule while still maintaining an acceptable level of risk. Examples of how the verification methodology mitigated risk will be provided, along with actual flight telemetry which confirms the robustness of the Chandra Telescope design and its verification methodology.

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Gary Matthews and Keith Havey Jr. "Ten years of Chandra: reflecting back on engineering lessons learned during the design, fabrication, integration, test, and verification of NASA's great x-ray observatory", Proc. SPIE 7738, Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IV, 77380Y (4 August 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.858268

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