ABSTRACT
On January 14, 2004, President George W. Bush held a press conference at the headquarters building of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in Washington, DC, to announce a new direction for the nation’s space agency. The RHESE project management function handled the day-today administrative and programmatic concerns of the project including budget planning, schedule development, accomplishment monitoring, risk assessment, and project execution. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center managed the Radiation Hardened Electronics for Space Exploration (RHESE) project. The RHESE project’s Modeling of radiation effects on electronics task focused on developing an updated model of the detrimental effects that radiation may have on modern electronic devices. The RHESE project management function served to enable the technology product tasks and to represent featured accomplishments to the Exploration Technology Development Program program office. Certain capabilities within the Constellation architecture, such as autonomous spacecraft operations, surface mobility, and hazard avoidance and landing, would require reliable computational processing power.
