The purpose of the Safety subsystem is to ensure that Spartnik will maintain the necessary level of integrity to survive launch, burn-out, and injection into orbit. The launch vehicle company and any other company launching spacecraft aboard the launch vehicle want the assurance that no Spartnik components will at any time damage the launch vehicle or the other payloads. The safety subsystem will produce a safety document that shows Spartnik was properly designed and manufactured, and will function properly and safely.

Safety Final Design Review (.pdf format)

THIS YEAR'S TEAM:

STRUCTURES TEAM

System Status: May 2000

Last month our safety mentor, Mike Jeung-Wesoloski, met with members of the Safety, LV&O, and Power subsystems. We discussed revisions for the Safety Document rough draft, and the information that we need to be able to provide for the launch vehicle company, as well as, the launch site. The Safety team is currently revising the Safety Document, and writing the FDR for Spring 2000. The FDR will help next year's Safety team pick up where we left off.

System Status: April 2000

The rough draft of the safety document is now complete. Soon we will be meeting with our industry mentor, Mike Jeung-Wesoloski, who will review the rough draft with us.

System Status: March 2000

The safety team has formed a committee, which consists of the safety team and a member from the Thermal, Power, Structures, Payload, ADAC, and TT&C subsystems. We now have to put together the safety document outline, and are now writing the safety document itself.

Acknowledgements:

The safety team would like to thank Lockheed Martin for its continued interest in and funding for the Spartnik microsatellite project. We would also like to thank Mike Jeung-Wesoloski from Lockheed martin who has graciously donated his time, energy, and expertise to the safety team.