AEROSPACE REPORT NUMBER: TR-2004(8583)-1 REV.A, (SMC-TR-06-11) TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR LAUNCH, UPPER-STAGE, AND SPACE VEHICLES (6 SEP 2006)

AEROSPACE REPORT NUMBER: TR-2004(8583)-1 REV.A, (SMC-TR-06-11) TEST REQUIREMENTS FOR LAUNCH, UPPER-STAGE, AND SPACE VEHICLES (6 SEP 2006)., This Standard establishes the environmental and structural ground testing requirements for launch vehicles, upper-stage vehicles, space vehicles, and their subsystems and units. In addition, a uniform set of definitions of related terms is established. This Standard is applicable to the procurement of space system hardware as a compliance document for the establishment of baseline test requirements. The test requirements herein focus on design verification and the elimination of latent defects to help ensure a high level of confidence in achieving successful space missions. Revision A to TR-2004(8583)-1, the proposed Military Standard 1540E, is being released to capture clarifications, corrections and changes identified by the user community during the initial implementation of the document for the acquisition of space systems. The modifications contained in this revision are not intended to impact the requirements of the original version of this document. The applicable documents section (2.1) has been updated to reflect the latest versions of the referenced documents. It had extensive review by SMC, NRO, NASA, and industry. It is being published at this time to support near-term government acquisitions with the intent of using it as a compliance document and to provide the basis for the updated Military Standard 1540 (Revision E).