Reliability Engineering of Beidou Navigation Satellite

This book describes the reliability research results and experience of BeiDou navigation satellite in engineering development. According to the characteristics of high reliability and high availability, this book discusses the reliability requirements, reliability design, reliability modeling, and reliability analysis of navigation satellite and constellation, focusing on the demonstration and decomposition of reliability requirements, constellation availability design, satellite availability design, and availability analysis. Based on the characteristics of batch production of navigation satellites, the particularity of reliability work is analyzed, and the reliability assurance works during batch production such as process reliability, data consistency comparison, storage reliability, and redundant satellite demonstration are introduced.

This book is suitable for spacecraft developers, as well as postgraduates majoring in spacecraft engineering, quality, or reliability.

Yang Hui was born in 1957. Since 1995, she has worked in China Academy of Space Technology. She used to be the chief designer of the BeiDou-2 satellite, and now she is the chief engineer of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System’s on-orbit support system and the academic and technical leader of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Her main research interests are the system design of spacecraft, reliability design, and flight control design. She has long been engaged in the research and technical management of satellite navigation and its application fields and mainly participated in designing and constructing the space segment of BeiDou satellite navigation system. She won 1 national special prize for scientific and technological progress award, 1 special prize, 3 first prizes, 3 second prizes, and 3 third prizes of the provincial science and technology progress award. She has won more than 20 national invention patents and 1 China Patent Gold Award, published more than 40 papers, and published 3 monographs.

Zhao Haitao was born in 1976. He has worked in China Academy of Space Technology since 2003. He is the chief designer of the reliability and a committee member of the Reliability Society of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. His main research interest is the reliability and safety of spacecraft. He has long been engaged in the research and technical work related to the reliability of navigation satellites and is the reliability responsibility designer of BeiDou satellites. He won 2 first prizes and 1 second prize of the provincial scientific and technological progress award. He has won 6 national invention patents, published more than 30 papers, and published 1 monograph.