Software Fault Injection Testing of the Embedded Software of a Satellite Launch Vehicle

The software performing navigation, guidance, control, and mission-sequencing functionalities embedded in the flight computer system (FCS) of a satellite launch vehicle must be highly dependable. The presence of faults in the embedded flight software affects its dependability and may even jeopardize the entire mission, resulting in a huge loss to the space agency concerned. There are many techniques available to achieve high dependability and can be classified under fault avoidance, fault removal and fault tolerance.