DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2010 · 77 citations · 2 references
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A joint research project between MIT and JAXA/JAMSS is investigating the application of a new hazard analysis to the system and software in the HTV. Traditional hazard analysis focuses on component failures but software does not fail in this way. Software most often contributes to accidents by commanding the spacecraft into an unsafe state (e.g., turning off the descent engines prematurely) or by not issuing required commands. That makes the standard hazard analysis techniques of limited usefulness on software-intensive systems, which describes most spacecraft built today.
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A new accident model for engineering safer systems
Nancy Leveson · Safety Science · 2003 · 2.2K citations · Full text