scope:

This standard specifies the system engineering implementation requirements for space systems and space products development. Specific objectives of this standard are: • to implement the system engineering requirements to establish a firm technical basis and to minimize technical risk and cost for space systems and space products development; • to specify the essential system engineering tasks, their objectives and outputs; • to implement integration and control of engineering disciplines and lower level system engineering work; • to implement the "customer-system-supplier model" through the development of systems and products for space applications. Generally, System Engineering is a discipline that can find beneficial application to the development and production of a wide variety of systems and throughout the product decomposition hierarchy. However the requirements in this Standard were developed to be appropriate for application as they are to complex space systems and products only; for lower level elements tailoring is necessary. The pre-tailoring table in Section 7 contains the applicability of the requirements of this document and its annexes according to product type.Specific requirements related to system engineering, like technical specification, verification, and testing are specified in dedicated documents and standards within the set of ECSS system engineering standards ECSS-E-ST-10-XX. Discipline or element specific engineering implementation requirements are covered in dedicated ECSS standards. These standards are based on the same principles, process and documentation model. The applicability of each these standards can therefore not be considered in isolation from the others.