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Small nit: this assumes all components are series. You can also increase reliability through parallel (i.e., redundancy). Obviously, this may not work for all s
by bumby 4y ago
Small nit: this assumes all components are series. You can also increase reliability through parallel (i.e., redundancy). Obviously, this may not work for all systems.
- ddalex 4y agothere are lots of ways to increase reliability - redundancy, graceful degradation (e.g. Abort to Orbit mode of STS) etc... but they cost, a lot :)
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- bumby 4y ago“Abort to Orbit” constitutes a mission failure and therefore doesn’t increase reliability. It decreases severity (and therefore lowers risk) by limiting loss of crew/spacecraft, but it’s not quite the same as increasing reliability