Summary of Results from the Risk Management Program for the Mars Microrover Flight Experiment

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Jan 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000stin...0057280s&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States

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Quantitative Finance

Risk Management

Risk, Management Methods, Mars Pathfinder, Planetary Surfaces, Systems Engineering, Roving Vehicles, Space Missions, Schedules, Quantitative Analysis, Low Cost, Mars Surface

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On 4 July 1997, the Mars Pathfinder landed on the surface of Mars carrying the first planetary rover, known as the Sojourner. Formally known as the Microrover Flight Experiment (MFEX), the Sojourner was a low cost, high-risk technology demonstration, in which new risk management techniques were tried. This paper summarizes the activities and results of the effort to conduct a low-cost, yet meaningful risk management program for the MFEX. The specific activities focused on cost, performance, schedule, and operations risks. Just as the systems engineering process was iterative and produced successive refinements of requirements, designs, etc., so was the risk management process. Qualitative risk assessments were performed first to gain some insights for refining the microrover design and operations concept. These then evolved into more quantitative analyses. Risk management lessons from the manager's perspective is presented for other low-cost, high-risk space missions.

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