NASA Ames Researchers Validate Failure Analysis Technology

Validation of one’s processes is positive reinforcement for one’s work… completing state-of-the art research, researchers at the NASA Ames Research‘s Intelligent Systems Division are independently developing the information that proves the technical approach used by Dr. Len Losik, founder of Failure Analysis. He is the developer of telemetry prognostic technology for satellites and launch vehicles, with his work that’s based on sound piece-part failure behavior reproducible in the lab environment.



Using sampling frequency in nana-samples per second, researchers at NASA are able to find failure precursors in piece-part test data, parts which eventually fail. Failure precursors in electronic and electromechanical equipment are not leveraged in the general aerospace community. Completing research on actuators, electronics and lithium-ion batteries, researchers at NASA Ames are creating the algorithms necessary to predict failures in piece-parts in use throughout the aerospace community. “This is the confirmation we are all waiting for to move ahead,” said Dr. Losik. Satellite, launch vehicle and satellite insurance companies can now start to use telemetry prognostics knowing that researchers have confirmed the technology. In the past, Failure Analysis has relied on the decades of flight history of telemetry prognostics actual use to confirm its reliability from the GPS, NASA GOES, INTELSAT and SUPERBIRD satellite programs and with Atlas, Titan and the French Ariane launch vehicles—Salinas, California