Development of Global Safety Orientations for Space Exploration Regulations and Bridging with Aviation Standards

Abstract

Abstract

The transportation capabilities for human-rating space exploration missions are emerging. Safety is a major argument on which the agencies commit to ensure to crew a safe journey and return to Earth. Secure mission success requires a regulated safety assessment process. Space safety regulations and standards already exist in agencies and institutions, but they do not represent a common vision, committed and shared internationally. That is why the elaboration of a safety standard for human-rating space exploration needs to benefit from existing safety standards approved worldwide. The standardized process for civil airborne systems is the world's most severe civil aviation standard, and is enriched by decades of maturation and improvement. It is expandable to space exploration in terms of set of methods for conducting a safety assessment process. In this frame, it represents the common safety orientations to be targeted by the space agencies toward the incredible evolution of the concept of safety for mission success.