Investigation into the effect of decreasing failure rate on long duration mission reliability estimates

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 599, 2005, Pages 303-308

  Frank, Michael V ^a  

^a Safety Factor Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LAUNCHING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPACECRAFT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

FAILURE RATE; MESSENGER; SPACECRAFT DATA;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 33645505362     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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