AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES
INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF OFF – NOMINAL AND EMERGENCY SITUATIONS IN
YUZHNOYE – DEVELOPED SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLES
Description
Our company, being a leading one in the development of several generations of highly – efficient
missile systems and launch vehicles gained a great
experience of their development and operation.
During the period since the 1960-s till 2004, more
than 780 launches of the launch vehicles were conducted, including: COSMOS – 148 launches with a
rate of successful launches P = 0.87; COSMOS-2 –
365 launches, P = 0.95; CYCLONE - 8 launches P
 1.0; CYCLONE-2 – 105 launches, P  1.0; CYCLONE-3 – 121 launches, P = 0.966; ZENIT – 36
launches, P = 0.853. An important result of this
unique experience is accumulation of valuable information on failures and malfunctions of the
launch vehicles, their systems and units, which were
the sources of off – nominal and emergency situations in the launch vehicles. Some emergency situations that occurred led to the catastrophes, economical damage connected with destruction of launch
complexes, losses of costly spacecraft, etc.
The proposed project intended to be developed during 2 years implies an integrated analysis of a large
amount of statistic data on off – nominal and emergency situations that occurred during Yuzhnoye –
developed launch vehicles pre-launch processing
and flight, based on the results of their reasons investigation, their consequences, design, technological and organizational measures directed at elimination of reasons of their repeated occurrence. The
integrated analysis of off – nominal situations of the
space launch systems (SLS) will allow to reveal the
tendencies appearing in SLS development and operation and leading to off – nominal and emergency
situations, to propose new types of testing and control, to introduce more effective means of revealing
off – nominal situations and eventually, to increase
reliability and safety of the developed and operated
space rocket hardware. The use of the results of
analysis of existing Yuzhnoye's experience in launch
vehicle off – nominal and emergency situations is
undoubtedly of a great practical value for the SLS
developers and for the companies that provide
space services.
Schematic Diagram for Project Implementation on ONS Complex
Analysis of Launch Vehicles Developed by Yuzhnoye SDO
L A U N C H
V E H I C L E S
COSMOS
COSMOS-2
CYCLONE
CYCLONE-2
CYCLONE-3
ZENIT
ZENIT-3SL
N = 148
N = 365
N=8
N = 105
N = 121
N = 36
N = 14
ID acquisition and classification for conducting ONS analysis
ONS number
in prelaunching
processing
in flight
ONS
descriptio
n
ONS
detection
methods
O N S
ONS
consequen
ces
ONS
causes
C O M P L E X
Tendencies of ONS occurrence:
-ONS symptoms in LV stages;
-ONS symptoms in systems;
-ONS occurrence in LV operation time;
-ONS recurrence;
-other tendencies.
ONS
symptom
character
Generation of requirements intended
to reduce the probability of ONS
occurrence
ТS
DD
Test programs and
methods
New control
types
New test
types
Measures for
exclusion of
ONS causes
occurrence
Other
characteristics
A N A L Y S I S
Design requirements
Normative
documents
Specific
features of
unit failed
Docum ents on
quality assurance
and control
New means for
ONS detection
Generalized ONS causes:
- human errors;
-insufficient test development;
-low-quality control;
-non conformance with requirements of DD, OD,
normative and other documents;
-other causes.
Technological
requirements
Operational
requirements
Documents on
technological
processes
Operational
documents
Innovative Aspect and Main Advantages
The project materials present the results of an Integrated Analysis of off – nominal situations based on
the statistic data on pre-launch processing and launch
of 780 space launch vehicles developed by Yuzhnoye
SDO.
Areas of Application
Space rocket industry – development, designing, and
operation of space launch systems
Stage of Development
Conceptual
Contact Details
Yuzhnoye SDO
Leonid Krivobokov
3, Krivorozhskaya str., Dniepropetrovsk, 49008,
UKRAINE.
Tel: +38 (0562) 924840
Fax: +38 (056) 7700125
E-mail: info@yuzhnoye.com
STCU Senior Specialist:
Elena Taberko [Elena.taberko@stcu.int]
STCUTechnology Reference: TPFe 71_03