An Algorithm for Evaluating System Reliability Indicators Time-Frequency Support of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Based on Functional Analysis

Abstract

The synchronicity of the functioning of numerous technological systems involved in the preparation and launch of space rockets is one of the main requirements for ground-based complexes of spaceports. Almost all positions at modern spaceports (launch and technical complexes, measuring points, astronomical, geodetic and meteorological complexes) are equipped with single-time systems in order to synchronize technological systems located at the facilities. When designing single-time systems, special attention is paid to ensuring the specified reliability indicators, eliminating structural redundancy and reducing cost indicators. The calculation methods currently used do not take into account the functional interaction between the components of modern single-time systems and need to be clarified. The clarification should relate to the ways of ranking individual functional groups of the system according to the degree of criticality. The article considers the possibility of using functional analysis to assess the reliability of single-time systems of the ground-based space infrastructure, and an algorithm is proposed that allows system decomposition. The updated methodology will become the basis of a step-by-step guide for each stage of the development of single-time systems, thereby improving the quality of reliability assessment and optimizing costs at all stages of the system life cycle

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Barmin I.V., Lokhovin V.A. An algorithm for evaluating system reliability indicators time-frequency support of ground-based space infrastructure based on functional analysis. Herald of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Series Mechanical Engineering, 2026, no. 1 (156), pp. 22--38 (in Russ.). EDN: ELONTC

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