Getting It Right Archive

The Microelectronics Reliability & Qualification Workshop (MRQW) provided a forum for open discussion of issues for microelectronics targeted for use in space systems.

Is testing alone more cost effective in improving reliability?

Evaluating satellite failure risk in performance-based functional availability (PFA) tools.

The SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) is the first practical bandgap-engineered device to be
realized in the silicon material system.

The 2019 Satellite Lifetime Study surveyed design and actual life of U.S. military, civil, commercial, and foreign commercial satellites launched between 1980 and 2018.

Understanding how a part’s failure modes can affect system-level performance is a key step in determining the extent of qualification and acceptance testing that is required for AM structures.

Space program leaders address the future of mission success.

As the complexity of AeroCubes increases, so does the need for rigorous systems engineering practice.

A framework has been established that provides an alternative path from traditional requirements-driven development. 

Driven by lower cost, lighter weight, reduced power and the need to pack more devices into ever smaller forms, many semiconductor packaging technologies are now considered assemblies or systems of…

The recent focus on service contracts for human spaceflight programs has given NASA greater cost effectiveness but puts pressure on providers to make mission assurance even more value added and…

Integrated models developed with close government–industry coordination can replace a document-centric approach with a model-centric one that provides better capabilities and offers an enterprise…

The last 10 years have brought significant challenges to failure analysis as technological complexity rapidly increased.

Held in Logan, Utah, this year’s SmallSat conference was the biggest ever, with more than 3,400 participants from 45 countries, representing over 1,000 organizations.  

Goddard Space Flight Center developed a new holistic approach for inherited and heritage items that factors prior history, successes, anomalies, and changes in the item.

Ensuring effective and safe operations of artificial intelligence / machine learning-enabled aerospace systems requires ongoing monitoring of system state of health and verification and validation of…