Failure Analysis has announced the company will expand its watchdog engineering services to space companies and organizations that rely on satellite and launch vehicle builders to produce highly reliable, fully tested, and ready to launch vehicles that do not want to suffer from a catastrophic infant mortality failure, or pay a higher insurance premium. Failure Analysis can also incorporate language for contracts to protect against contractor use of unskilled, untrained, inexperienced, and illegal personnel to produce the highest quality and reliable product. After winning a settlement and spending years in litigation against several of the world’s most successful and profitable commercial and government satellite and launch vehicle builders for uncovering fraudulent claims and ignoring customer needs, Failure Analysis is ready to protect other space companies against predatory practices. This will help to ensure space vehicle builders meet the obligations they agree to and claim in their contracts and progress reports. On commercial, fixed-price satellite and launch vehicle contracts, short term contract progress payments are more important today to vehicle builders, causing decisions that meet short term profit expectations but risk loss of unplanned for, far-out launch and long-term in-orbit incentives due to infant mortality failures—Salinas, California


