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Author(s)
Hervé Poussin1, L. Rochas1, T. Vallée1, and R. Bertrand2
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2142/2018.03.004
Affiliation(s)
1. Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, Guiana Space Center, BP 726-97387 Kourou, French Guiana, France;
2. Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, Edouard Belin, 31401, Toulouse, France
ABSTRACT
A chief goal of the launcher
design philosophy is to build launchers offering operational efficiency and not
that can be flown safely. Moreover, launch operator focuses the mission design
on mission success criteria for the payload and often mitigates launch risks. These sole conditions
clearly appear to be inadequate to ensure safety
during a flight neither to be up to the safety
challenges. Flight safety at
CNES/CSG (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales/Centre Spatial Guyanais) is considered to be a full part job, to be performed
separately from the launcher mission. Dedicated ground operators, namely safety officers, who are independent from launcher
teams, are ultimately responsible for ensuring the safety. During
the flight of a launcher, they are in charge of
interrupting actively, making use of a flight termination telecommand from
ground, the erroneous flight of a launcher before it endangers people or
properties. Human factor is
therefore of fundamental importance in flight safety at CNES/CSG. After a quick
overview of CNES/CSG, this paper, based on the flight safety way of operation
and on the safety officers recruitment, instruction, training and
certification, aims at declining how the human factor is handled throughout all
flight safety activities.
KEYWORDS
Flight safety, launcher mission, human factors.
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