SSRI Knowledge Base Tool
DEMONSTRATION!
Tuesday, August 17, 2021
10:00AM-11:00AM PDT
by
Robbie Robertson, PhD
Sedaro Technologies
The Small Satellite Reliability Initiative (SSRI), in conjunction with the Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI), has developed the SSRI Knowledge Base to improve mission confidence for small spacecraft. The SSRI Knowledge Base is a comprehensive online tool that consolidates and organizes resources, best practices, and lessons learned from previous small satellite missions.This free, publicly available tool has been released and is available to the SmallSat community at https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/.
The SSRI Knowledge Base development team presented a live demonstration of their website, review newly added topic pages and resources, and have an open discussion with webinar participants to shape further development of this community resource.
NASA’s SSRI Knowledge Base Tool – New Topic Pages and Resources Added
The Small Satellite Reliability Initiative (SSRI), in conjunction with NASA’s Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI), has developed the SSRI Knowledge Base to improve mission confidence for small spacecraft.
The SSRI Knowledge Base is a comprehensive and searchable online tool that consolidates and organizes resources, best practices, and lessons learned from previous small satellite missions. This free, publicly available tool is available to the entire SmallSat community at https://s3vi.ndc.nasa.gov/ssri-kb/.
The SSRI Knowledge Base provides vetted, high-quality sources of information on elements that are key to successful small satellite missions. These resources include original SSRI-generated content in addition to existing guides, publications, standards, software tools, websites, and reference books. Knowledge Base content is provided for download when possible and otherwise linked to or referenced from the Knowledge Base.
In the interest of quickly evolving and growing alongside the technology state-of-the-art, the SSRI Knowledge Base includes user ratings and interfaces for crowdsourcing of new content. All user-recommended content is thoroughly reviewed by subject matter experts before being incorporated into the Knowledge Base.
The completed SSRI Knowledge Base will consist of 58 topic pages and currently includes content for the 40 topic pages listed below. These 40 topic pages contain nearly 300 unique resources and 180 best practices and lessons learned.
Conceptual Design: Mission Architecture Design, Mission Simulation and Analysis
Planning and Management: Mission Assurance Requirements, Scheduling, Cost Estimating, Reporting and Documentation, Licensing and Regulations, Design Reviews
Detailed Design and Analysis: Orbit Design and Analysis, ConOps Planning and Autonomy, Mechanical and Thermal Design, Material Selection, Structural Analysis, Thermal Analysis, Circuit Design, Board Layout, Part Selection, Circuit Analysis, Radiation Analysis, Reliability Analysis, Embedded Software/Firmware Development, Embedded Software/Firmware Unit Testing, Embedded Software/Firmware Timing Analysis, Flight Software Development, Flight Software Testing, Electrical Power Subsystem Design, Electronics Manufacturing, Mechanical Assembly
Integration and Test: Integration, Day-in-the-Life Testing, Electronics Functional Testing, Single Event Effects Testing, Total Ionizing Dose Testing, Vibration Testing, Thermal Cycling, Thermal Vacuum, Burn-In, Electrical Power Subsystem Testing
Launch: Launch Procurement
Operations: On-Orbit Fault Recovery
Enhancements to the Knowledge Base tool are underway and include: user interface improvements, new content, a public Application Programming Interface (API), and improved crowdsourcing interfaces. Please continue to visit the site to see these new features and additional content.
