Casas, Joseph

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"Lean Small Satellite Missions Require Lean Access to 
Space"
United Nations/Brazil Symposium on Basic Space Technology 
"Creating Novel Opportunities with Small Satellite Space Missions"
Natal, Brazil, 11 - 14 September 2018
Joseph Casas 
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Joseph.casas@nasa.gov
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"Lean” Small Satellite Missions Concept
• The concept of “lean satellite missions” was born from the creation and 
evolution of the practices of lean manufacturing, lean engineering, lean 
satellites , lean launch and lean operations 
• “Lean” is a both technical and management approaches to the “risk and 
reward” considerations, it is not a standard by itself
• Lean and Six Sigma are widely used in industry as continuous improvement 
best practices
• They can also be very complementary in nature and, if performed properly, can 
produce unprecedented results
• Lean focuses on eliminating non-value added activities in a process and Six Sigma 
focuses on reducing variation from the remaining value-added steps
• Lean provides speed ensuring products and services flow without interruption while 
Six Sigma ensures that critical product / service characteristics are completed correctly 
the very first time we do them.
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Status of Access to Space  
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Orbital Launch Attempts by Country
Country Launches Failures
USA 29 0
Russia 21 1
China 18 2
Europe 9 0
Japan 7 1
India 5 1
New Zealand 1* 1
Total 90 6
Lean Access to Space 
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VECTOR ( new)Comparison Only
SPORT  Space Weather Operational U Class Observatory Constellation


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