Spacecraft electrical power subsystem: Failure behavior, reliability, and multi-state failure analyses

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 55-65

  Kim, So Young ^a   Castet, Jean Francois ^a   Saleh, Joseph H ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Electrical power subsystem; Failure; Orbits; Spacecraft

Indexed keywords

ANOMALY; BURN-IN PROCEDURES; ELECTRICAL POWER SUBSYSTEMS; FAILURE BEHAVIORS; FAILURE EVENTS; GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW-EARTH ORBIT; MULTI-STATE FAILURE; ON ORBIT; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; SATELLITE MANUFACTURERS; SOLAR ARRAYS; SPACE ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL RELIABILITY;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DEGRADATION; ELECTRICITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; ORBITS; POWER QUALITY;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 81155128073     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.10.005     Document Type: Article

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