Make Getting to Space and Working in Space Safe Using PHM to Identify Premature Aging in Spacecraft Telemetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540319593)

The author is an award winning spacecraft designer for his technical contributions and leadership that led to the funding the Air Force's GPS program by the DoD as the Boeing GPS Space & Ground Segment Manager. The author has over 30 years of experience in the design, manufacture and test of military, NASA and commercial satellites, ground stations, missiles and launch vehicles as an RF and digital design engineer. The author pioneered the use of predictive algorithms on GPS satellites to illustrate and identify the presence of premature aging in satellite subsystem and payload equipment analog telemetry and determine remaining usable life as the Boeing/Air Force's GPS Space and Ground Segment Manager on GPS satellites at the factory, launch pad and on on-orbit and on the General Dynamics Atlas E/F launch vehicles used to launch GPS Block I satellites into a 63 degree inclination, 12 hour circular orbit beginning in 1979. The author published his first paper on PHM and included the results from his 2 year prognostic analysis of the NASA/U.C. Berkeley EUVE space science satellite at the International Telemetry Conference held in Las Vegas Nevada in 1996 and 1997 and in 2 books and over 25 technical papers at a wide variety of technical conferences. As the NASA GOES Spacecraft Manager, the author was responsible for the design, manufacture and test of 10 NASA GOES Next I-R satellites. The author was also the Air Force Titan 34D, Boeing IUS solid rocket motor and scramjet Test Manager at United Technologies. As the Program Manager on the NASA EUVE space science program at U.C. Berkeley, the author was requested to complete a prognostic analysis on the on-orbit EUVE low earth orbiting satellite in 1994. The results were published in conjunction with Lockheed-Martin reliability engineers from the Advanced Development Center located in Sunnyvale CA for use on the U.S. Navy Trident D5 ICBM program. As a spacecraft TC&R/TT&C/C&DH subsystem engineer, the author led the design of the first commercial, geostationary C, Ku and Ka-Band communications satellite to have their subsystem equipment usable life measured prior to launch using PHM to identify the equipment that was going to fail prematurely earning a commendation from INTELSAT. The author also embedded predicted algorithms in telecommunications industry NEBS and ETSI, PTSN servers for companies such as Verizon, AT&T and Lucent Technologies to meet the 99.999% availability requirement.