should be minimised and off-the-shelf systems and components should be used where applicable. • The demonstrator is built only to be “good enough” to fulfil the objectives of the experiment. The mission requirements of the demonstrator should be understood thoroughly in order to specify components that can adequately meet the demonstrator needs with realistic reliability margins. Choosing the highest rated and highest quality solution will significantly increase costs and should be avoided. This is unless such a solution would provide net system advantages. • Building in redundancy throughout each subsystem should be avoided, except in critical areas and where the economic and mass impacts are minimal. For the most part, “redundancy” should be achieved by good design with large margins if the mass budget permits this. Management Philosophy & Approach * Management effectiveness is critical to an inexpensive, shortschedule demonstrator programme. ♦ A stream-lined management approach is vital to minimising administrative overheads. • A team is assembled from highly motivated individuals with multidisciplinary engineering capabilities and experience. • Ideally, the team should be located in geographically compact
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