Rough Notes

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The table above is used to rank each event based on the severity it can have on the mission as well as the probability of occurrence. These numbers can be used to calculate a failure criticality number that can allow us to prioritize the types of errors that could really cause us problems. In terms of the SN and PN values, they seem pretty qualitative. Just rankings based on the description of the impact the error could have the likelihood of occurrence. Based on these calculations, you can create a criticality matrix

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RBD - Reliability Block Diagram

How to Create A Reliability Block Diagram?

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^ This is just examples of how to do this analysis, we can apply this to our own system and see if we can come up with reasonable answers of our own

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^ Something to keep in mind, if OBC goes down we’ll need PAY MCU to take over satellite operations, so we’ll need to include the PAY controller for our OBC RBD