On the Estimation of Space Launch Vehicle Reliability
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The paper reviews the common definitions of reliability that are relevant to launch vehicles (LVs) and discusses their theoretical and practical interpretations. The paper then proceeds to a discussion of the data and methods available for reliability estimation at various LV system maturity stages, presenting examples of results and estimations obtained by past and recent studies. This leads to practical considerations concerning the meaning of typical reliability estimations that are generated in common space industry practice, and their degree of correspondence and consistency with the theoretical definitions of the parameters they seek to quantify. Final observations and comments are drawn from these considerations.
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