NEW EUROPEAN TESTING STANDARD ECSS-E-10-03AAND ISO CONTEXT

摘要

Standardization is a key aspect of the production business committed to the optimization of the product development and cost. In the Space field, several decades of industry and Government organizations have developed Space standards like the MIL series, deriving them from the aircraft and military fields, or the NASA standards. This approach was later implemented in several countries like USA, Russia, Japan and China. In the last years most of those standards were revised to cope with the emerging needs of the market. In Europe, the Space activities were generally managed by a set of ESA standards, the PSS, which covered some aspects of these activities and reflected the up-to-date approaches and common practices. But, in the last years an initiative was also promoted by ESA, National Agencies and Space Organizations, named ECSS (European Cooperation for Space Standardization), with the aim to develop a coherent, single set of user-friendly standards for use in all European space activities. European industries supported this initiative, including a deep involvement of Alenia Spazio, and, sometime through a suitable revision of the old PSS documents, new standards were defined, as for the "Testing". In the mean time, at an international level, the International Standard Organization, ISO, activated a Subcommittee, the SC14, named Space Systems and Operations, with the scope to provide an international forum for addressing the standardization needs and concerns of organizations and personnel involved with the development and operation of space systems. Moreover this work was intended to facilitate the development of joint projects faced with the growing international market. Alenia Spazio is also a member of the ISO working groups providing expertise the on-going activities. Scope of this paper is to present the status of these initiatives, the content of the Testing standards and the difficulties to harmonize standards and methodologies which reflect different government and industrial points of view. Differences in requirement definition and proposals for further optimization are presented on the basis of Alenia Spazio experience in supporting the above initiatives.