Faster, Better, Cheaper Approach to Space Missions: An Engineering Management Assessment

摘要

This paper describes, in viewgraph form, the faster, better, cheaper approach to space missions. The topics include: (1) What drives 'Faster, Better, Cheaper'. (2) Why Space Programs are Costly; (3) Background; (4) Aerospace Project Management (Old Culture); (5) Aerospace Project Management (New Culture); (6) Scope of Analysis Limited to Engineering Management Culture; (7) Qualitative Analysis; (8) Some Basic Principles of the New Culture; (9) Cause and Effect; (10) 'New Ways of Doing Business' Survey Results; (11) Quantitative Analysis; (12) Recent Space System Cost Trends; (13) Spacecraft Dry Weight Trend; (14) Complexity Factor Trends; (15) Cost Normalization; (16) Cost Normalization Algorithm; (17) Unnormalized Cost vs. Normalized Cost; and (18) Concluding Observations.