EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The Space Safety, Quality and Risk Management Sessions of the 32nd and 33rd Symposia on Safety, Rescue, and Quality (1999/2000), published in this volume, were organized by the International Academy of Astronautics' (IAA) Committee on Safety and Quality.

(Extracted from the Foreword).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword.

-THE CHALLENGE OF QUALITY AND SAFETY FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 1999.

-Process Based Mission Assurance.
-Analysis of Promising Trends in Creation of Technology to Rescue Launch Vehicles Jettisoned Parts and Increase Safety at Impact Areas.
-Methodology for Assessment of Safety Constrained Operations.
-CBERS - An International Space Cooperation Program.
-Human-Rating of Spacecraft for International Space Programs.
-Streamlining System Safety Processes for International Space Programs.

-RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT 1999.

-Risk Balancing Profile Tool.
-Risk Management Procedures: Application of Technical Risk Assessment In FESTIP.
-Project Management FMEA.
-Reliability Apportionment for Complex Launch Vehicles.

-RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT: A KEY DISCIPLINE FOR SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 2000.

-Failure-Space: A Systems Engineering Look at 50 Space System Failures.
-Risk Management: Lessons Learned from the Development of the Atmospheric Reentry Demonstrator.
-Improving Safety and Reliability of Next Generation Launch Vehicles.
-NASDA's New Approach to Mission Success: The Kyo-Kun System.
-NASA's Use of Quantitative Risk Assessment for Safety Upgrades.

-COPING WITH THE SPACE ENVIRONMENT 1999.

-Space Weather Forecasting from the Solar X-Ray Imager.
-Space Weather: What is at Stake for Europe.
-Coping With Big Storms in the Earth's Radiation Belts: Trends in Engineering Models.

-SPACE WEATHER ISSUES 2000.

-Living With a Star: The NASA Space Weather Initiative.
-What is Really Needed to Nowcast/Forecast Relativistic Particle Variations Near the Earth?
-Single Event Effect Measurement and its Countermeasure Experiment in Space.
-Sudden Creation of a New Helium Radiation Belt and its Consequence for Space Weather: A Modeling Approach.
-Next Generation Mapping of the Earth's Radiation Environment: The Radiation and Technology Development (RTD) Mission.

-APPENDICES.

-Publications of the American Astronautical Society.

-INDEX.

-Numerical Index.
-Author Index.