session 5

Title

Lessons Learned in Space Systems: Achievements, Challenges, Best Practices, Standards.

Description

This session addresses Lessons Learned in Space Systems on all aspects of the life cycle. The learning from the past is the necessary way to ensure mission success of future missions. This retrospective viewpoint includes the achievement of mission accomplishments, the challenges to overcome the difficulties and the best practices to lead the mission success, incorporating documentation of Lessons Learned. The scope of the session also includes the standards in design, development and operation; lessons learned in design, development and operation; achievement from development in project management; achievement from mission success and on-orbit operation; best practices of project management and systems engineering; challenges in project or programme development; challenges to overcome the difficulties on orbit; improvement of a Space system from former system development and operation; discussion of standards to assure the mission; and the documentation of learned lessons to preserve and make them available to future missions.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Mr. Eiichi Tomita, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan;

• Co-Chair: Prof. Igor V. Belokonov, Samara National Research University (Samara University), Russian Federation;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Otfrid G. Liepack, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States;