ABSTRACT From the perspective of the evolution of modern mass-production industrial sectors, the establishment of an industry can occur in a typical sequence of four conceptual phases: the introduction phase, in which a new technological concept is introduced; the growth phase, in which application of this concept in the form of a product or service is undertaken; the maturity phase, in which the direct use of the product and the advent of product-enabled services establish the new economic sector, and an eventual decline phase when one or more substitute products appear. Most of the current industrial products may be considered systems. The application of established concepts, such as interchangeable parts, permits firms to manufacture systems on a large scale, making sophisticated products available to society at manageable prices. The large availability of a product in a socioeconomic environment favors the use of this product in innovative ways, many of them unprecedented. In this way, introducing an innovative product in the market may nucleate a whole new industry over time, which may experience growth either through the continual evolvement of the product or expansion of the breadth of applications. Recent years have shown impressive development in the space industry. This article presents data that suggests that the global satellite space industry is transitioning from a growth to a maturity stage. It will be argued that barriers to entry are still at a level that permits Brazil, given its current position, to engage in the global space industry. massproduction mass production sectors phases introduced undertaken productenabled enabled sector appear concepts parts scale prices ways unprecedented way time applications stage Brazil position

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 Lançamento Barreira do Inferno (CLBI) began its operation, having the Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (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 IAE’s 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.

ABSTRACT The article explores the reuse of technical processes in the manufacturing of space systems, from the perspective of establishing a database of technical manufacturing processes for use by space organizations. It will be argued that the reuse of processes is made feasible when a database of processes is implemented and that the reuse of technical manufacturing processes provides gains in time, cost, and reliability. A proposal for the organization of project technical processes into a database is presented. The article addresses the following topics: technical process concepts, control and use of technical manufacturing processes practiced by space agencies, identification of technical manufacturing processes, and their organization in a database. Finally, an example of the application of reuse is presented, and the main consequences of the reuse of technical manufacturing processes with the aid of a database are discussed.

Abstract: To ensure the continuity and growth of space activities in Brazil, it is fundamental to persuade the Brazilian society and its representatives in Government about the importance of investments in space activities. Also, it is important to convince talented professionals to place space activities as an object of their interest; the best schools should also be convinced to offer courses related to the space sector; finally, innovative companies should be convinced to take part in space sector activities, looking to returns, mainly in terms of market differentiation and qualification, as a path to take part in high-technology and high-complexity projects. On the one hand, this process of convincing or, more importantly, committing these actors to space activities, implies a thorough understanding of their expectations and needs, in order to plan how the system/organization can meet them. On the other hand, if stakeholders understand how much they can benefit from this relationship, their consequent commitment will very much strengthen the action of the system/organization. With this framework in perspective, this paper proposes a methodology of stakeholder analysis for the Brazilian satellite space program. In the exercise developed in the article, stakeholders have been identified from a study of the legal framework of the Brazilian space program. Subsequently, the proposed methodology has been applied to the planning of actions by a public organization.