Lecture 6: May 5, 2009
Fault Management for Manned Spacecraft: From Design to Operations
Carlos Garcia-Galan, NASA Johnson Space Flight Center
Bio
Carlos Garcia-Galan is a Deputy System Manager - Orion
\Vehicle Systems Management at NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC).
He started his career as an International Space Station (ISS)
flight controller participating
in twelve ISS-Shuttle assembly missions and ISS increment operations.
He also served as an Operations Team Liaison at the Russian Space
Agency’s Mission Control Center (TsUP) in Korolev, Russia.
In 2001, he joined Honeywell where he served as the Technical
Lead for the System Management function in the Orion Lockheed
Martin team. The Systems Management function on Orion includes
the integrated health assessment and vehicle-level
fault management for the spacecraft. In 2007, he transitioned
to the NASA team working on Orion’s Systems Management Function.
Mr. Garcia-Galan holds a B.S. in Space Sciences and B.S in
Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology
(Florida Tech) in Melbourne, FL.
Abstract
Fault Management systems of manned spacecraft
must be robust to maximize crew survivability
and their ability to return to Earth upon one
or multiple system failures. Furthermore, Fault Management
must support high probability of Mission Success, due to the nature
of manned space mission, and the resources invested
in them. The spacecraft crew can effectively participate in
managing system faults if they have proper command and control
capabilities and interfaces with the system.
This seminar provides an overview of the main factors and
techniques used in manned spacecraft Fault Management design,
including different techniques for Fault Analysis, and the
integration and use of the crew for Fault Management.
We will also review key lessons learned in Fault Management
from the last 30 years of spaceflight operations with the
Space Shuttle and International Space Station.
Lecture Notes
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