scope:

This Standard defines the quality assurance (QA) requirements for the establishment and implementation of a Quality Assurance programme for products of space projects.

Discipline related qualification activities are complemented in standards specific to those disciplines (e.g. ECSS-E-ST-32-01 for fracture control).

For software quality assurance, the software product assurance standard, ECSSQ-ST-80 is applicable.

This Standard is applicable to all space projects.

This standard may be tailored for the specific characteristic and constraints of a space project in conformance with ECSS-S-ST-00.

For the tailoring of this standard the following information is provided:

• A table providing the pre-tailoring per "Product types" in clause 6

• A table providing the pre-tailoring per "Project phase" in Annex J