An Overview of the NASA Advanced Composite Solar Sail (ACS3) Technology Demonstration Project
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Requirements and design specifications are a high priority candidate for better software engineering techniques. Most hazardous software safety errors found during system integration and test of two NASA spacecraft were the result of requirements discrepancies or interface specifications. The highest density of major defects found through the use of software inspections was during the requirements phase. This was seven times higher than the density of major defects found in code inspections. Requirements errors are between 10 and 100 times more costly to fix at later phases of the software lifecycle than at the requirements phase itself. One study found that early lifecycle errors are the most likely to lead to catastrophic failures.
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This presentation summarizes project goals; vehicle and H2 station deployment status, critical performance compared to targets; highlights of latest vehicle and infrastructure analysis results and progress; learning demo next steps; highlights of partner activities and summary.
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Building America worked with SMUD on this 1980s retrofit home to cut energy use by 104 points from a pre-retrofit California HERS score of 182 to a post retrofit score of 78.
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) worked with DOE's Building America Program to cut energy use by more than 50% in a rehab of a 1950s tract home in Sacramento.
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