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6.6.2 Factors Contributing to Space System Failures and Successes

2003· article· en· W2009944297 on OpenAlexaff
David Kaslow

Bibliographic record

VenueINCOSE International Symposium · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSpacecraft Design and Technology
Canadian institutionsLockheed Martin (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDocumentationSpace (punctuation)Computer scienceWork (physics)Risk analysis (engineering)Systems engineeringArchitectural engineeringManagement scienceOperations researchEngineeringEngineering managementBusiness

Abstract

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Abstract Processes and procedures, concepts, requirements, and design specifications, and design and productions standards are necessary but not always sufficient for building a robust space system. These entities are only documentation and not knowledge. The preponderance of these entities are success‐centric and are created from within the system. That is, they generally do not provide enough emphasis on addressing what can go wrong and they are limited by the knowledge of the people developing the system. This paper is divided into three parts. The first part examines specific occurrences of space mission degradation, failure and recovery. These examples will illustrate the notion that anything can go wrong in a space mission, but a robust design and ingenious work‐arounds can often save the mission. The second part provides examples of recovery from failures. The third part provides an overview of six methodologies that are critical to building a robust system. These methodologies should be standard practices in any program, but can be overlooked or under‐worked when a program first encounters the prospect of missed milestones and insufficient funding.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.013
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.099
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.071

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0130.099
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0040.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.005
Scholarly communication0.0060.004
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.207 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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