Spacecraft survivability standards: enhancing traditional hazard control approaches

Publisher Summary This chapter explores the survivability of engineering standards of space craft utilizing the planned features for design. It also deals with the vulnerability and tradition of survivability of air craft. Along with the introduction of survivability of aircrafts, even the spacecraft survivability was introduced with various features that include identification of threat, assessment of design, support trade study, and damage modes and effective analysis along with developments and requirements. It also reveals at the end that the process of space craft survivability (SCS) is of great value and it enhances not only the safety of the crew but also the prevention of any future calamities of human space flight mishap. Various institutions dealing with SCS such as Orion and NASA are coming up with more sophisticated concepts that are explored to benefit all future human space flight vehicles and passengers. Discussions regarding the possibilities that the SCS will also be applied to the commercial flight system are on. In sometime near future, the SCS concept could also be applied as a general standard in survivability engineering for human space flight design.