What is it about?

This paper taps at many of the traditional practices that NASA has been carrying and recommends paths forward to align with the evolving space community, especially with the growth of the newspace community. Topics covered include risk classification, radiation, safety and mission assurance, and the use of COTS parts and components.

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Why is it important?

This paper provides an essential step for NASA to maintain its place in the space community. This is one in a series of disruptive papers that are meant to maintain NASA's place and leadership role in the national and international space communities.

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This paper builds upon experiential flight experience data collected from 2000-2022, combined with observations about NASA's institutionalized approaches and those of the broad space community

Dr. Jesse Adam Leitner
NASA

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This page is a summary of: Modernizing NASA's risk classification system, Acta Astronautica, January 2023, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.10.043.
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