@Article{SilvaPero:2021:PrLiDe,
               author = "Silva, Felipe da Motta and Perondi, Leonel Fernando",
          affiliation = "{Instituto de Aeron{\'a}utica e Espa{\c{c}}o (IAE)} and 
                         {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
                title = "A proposal of a life-cycle for the development of sounding rockets 
                         missions",
              journal = "Journal of Aerospace Technology and Management",
                 year = "2021",
               volume = "13",
                pages = "e2021",
             keywords = "Project life-cycle, Project management, Rocket mission.",
             abstract = "Suborbital flight experiments, carried out through sounding 
                         rockets, have been employed for scientific and technological 
                         research since the beginning of the space age, in the late 1950s. 
                         In Brazil, sounding rocket campaigns have been carried out since 
                         1965, when the Centro de Lan{\c{c}}amento Barreira do Inferno 
                         (CLBI) began its operation, having the Instituto de 
                         Aeron{\'a}utica e Espa{\c{c}}o (IAE) as the primary provider of 
                         vehicles. IAE has also provided vehicles for international 
                         programs, such as the TEXUS and MASER microgravity programs, 
                         implemented by the European Space Agency (ESA), with launching 
                         campaigns based in the European territory. To implement each 
                         Brazilian mission that uses IAEs sounding rockets, a set of 
                         activities focused on mission objectives is planned and 
                         implemented. Although structured and executed quite similarly to a 
                         project, such sounding rocket campaigns do not have their complete 
                         life-cycle studied and formally described in phases, review 
                         meetings, management processes and verification and validation 
                         philosophy. In the present work, the attempt has been to 
                         characterize a sounding rocket mission as a project and then, 
                         based on European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) 
                         standards, propose a reduced life-cycle to develop such projects, 
                         tailored to meet Brazilian sounding rocket missions. The proposed 
                         life-cycle, adapted to Brazilian sounding rocket missions, is then 
                         compared with two other sounding rocket campaigns life-cycles: one 
                         from the European Programme for Life and Physical Sciences in 
                         Space and the other from the National Aeronautics and Space 
                         Administration (NASA) sounding rocket program. The study and 
                         availability of a framework for implementing and managing sounding 
                         rocket missions will improve the reliability of such endeavors and 
                         speed up their organization.",
                  doi = "10.1590/jatm.v13.1193",
                  url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/jatm.v13.1193",
                 issn = "1984-9648",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "silva_proposal.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "20 maio 2024"
}