Session
Weekend Session 5: Coordinating Successful Educational Programs
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC) is a non-profitable organization established in 2003 with the purpose of supporting the “ realization of practical space engineering activities, ” and providing support to universities and research institutions in Japan. UNISEC has accumulated practical experiences and achievements from more than 80 micro- and nano-satellite projects of the corporate partners, which also includes the two world-first-CubeSats launched in 2003. Following the recent drastic increase of academic and commercial space development and utilization activities all over the world, UNISEC has recently conducted a survey on the lessons learned of safety and mission assurance of these satellites partly as a contract from JAXA, to distill the best practices to ensure the mission success of the satellites. The survey contains replies from more than 15 faculty members and researchers of 10 universities or institutions or colleges with information about 36 satellite projects, 208 individual success and failure cases. In this research, we analyzed questionnaires of lessons learned from each satellite project statistically by sampling specific terms and counting frequency. The questionnaire contains technical topics and project management topics (including human factors, team/organization factors, schedule factors) for the analysis of individual subjects of success or failure. The examples are categorized into the following: Accomplishments or failures of the mission on orbit, Demonstrations or troubles on the bus functions, and Supplemental products (design/test process, educational effects).
Statistical Analysis of Lessons Learned from University Satellite Projects in Japan
Utah State University, Logan, UT
University Space Engineering Consortium (UNISEC) is a non-profitable organization established in 2003 with the purpose of supporting the “ realization of practical space engineering activities, ” and providing support to universities and research institutions in Japan. UNISEC has accumulated practical experiences and achievements from more than 80 micro- and nano-satellite projects of the corporate partners, which also includes the two world-first-CubeSats launched in 2003. Following the recent drastic increase of academic and commercial space development and utilization activities all over the world, UNISEC has recently conducted a survey on the lessons learned of safety and mission assurance of these satellites partly as a contract from JAXA, to distill the best practices to ensure the mission success of the satellites. The survey contains replies from more than 15 faculty members and researchers of 10 universities or institutions or colleges with information about 36 satellite projects, 208 individual success and failure cases. In this research, we analyzed questionnaires of lessons learned from each satellite project statistically by sampling specific terms and counting frequency. The questionnaire contains technical topics and project management topics (including human factors, team/organization factors, schedule factors) for the analysis of individual subjects of success or failure. The examples are categorized into the following: Accomplishments or failures of the mission on orbit, Demonstrations or troubles on the bus functions, and Supplemental products (design/test process, educational effects).
