Concurrent AIV as a method to hard tailor test- and model philosophies in times of need.

ABSTRACT: MASCOT, a small 11 kg prototype Asteroid Lander on-board JAXA's Hayabusa2 space probe, was launched on December 3rd, 2014, and arrived at its destined target asteroid (162173) Ryugu on June 27, 2018. MASCOT was separated from its mother spacecraft and successfully landed on October 3rd, 2018, accomplishing the first ever landing of a European spacecraft on the surface of an asteroid. To catch this particular launch opportunity its development timeline needed to be heavily compressed. In particular, the kick-off for hardware production was released in February 2012, only 2 years before the initially planned delivery of the flight unit. Due to this compact schedule, current and well established verification processes could not be followed in order to finalize the project in the given time. B

SUBMITTER: Grimm C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6812338 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature