Space product assurance. Quality assurance
This Standard defines the quality assurance (QA) requirements for the establishment and implementation of a Quality Assurance programme for products of space projects.
Discipline related qualification activities are complemented in standards specific to those disciplines (e.g. ECSS-E-ST-32-01 for fracture control).
For software quality assurance, the software product assurance standard, ECSS-Q-ST-80 is applicable.
This Standard is applicable to all space projects.
This standard may be tailored for the specific characteristic and constraints of a space project in conformance with ECSS-S-ST-00.
For the tailoring of this standard the following information is provided:
A table providing the pre-tailoring per “Product types” in clause 6
A table providing the pre-tailoring per “Project phase” in Annex J
| SDO | BSI: British Standards Institution |
| Document Number | EN 16602-20 |
| Publication Date | March 27, 2020 |
| Language | en - English |
| Page Count | 74 |
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| Supercedes | |
| Committee | ACE/68 |