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Real System Failures

Metadata Updated: February 22, 2025

This resource area contains descriptions of actual electronic systems failure scenarios with an emphasis on the diversity of failure modes and effects that can befall dependable systems.

Introductory pages begin here. The descriptions begin here. These pages are separated into sections. Each section starts with a List of failure scenarios.
In between the List slides are slides that give more information on those scenarios which warrant more than a bullet or two of explanation. Some references are listed here. A list of acronyms and initialisms is here.

If you would like to add a story to this list or add additional significant details to an existing story, please contact Kevin Driscoll at

For a not-quite-working wiki subset of this Resource area, click on the Wiki link just to the left of this Summary or go to the URL https://c3.nasa.gov/dashlink/projects/79/wiki/test_stories_split.

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Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

Downloads & Resources

Dates

Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from nasa test json

Additional Metadata

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Metadata Created Date February 22, 2025
Metadata Updated Date February 22, 2025
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Maintainer
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Data First Published 2012-11-12
Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
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Program Code 026:029
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 4a0488d2dea6db9c7f54ff02eaefb1088b4ace19b50ca2120886c6353b3960d7
Source Schema Version 1.1

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