The aerospace industry faces increased complexity and uncertainty: new applications need to be developed; reliability and dependability is critical; society and stakeholder expectations are increasing; and failure to manage the risks can be fatal. Overall, failure is not an option.

Purpose

DNV is recognised by the European Space Agency (ESA) and major prime contractors in Europe for our performance in risk management, safety assurance, process and product assurance, certification, verification and validation. DNV is a leading independent provider of third party services.

We help optimise functionality, cost and schedule whilst managing the risk of information, systems and software.

At DNV, we assist organisations in identifying, assessing, and advising on how to manage risk. Combining management and technology skills, we help our clients safely and responsibly improve their performance.

Benefits

DNV's aerospace services include:

• Systems and software safety and dependability
  • Independent software verification & validation (ISVV)
  • Certification
  • Product and safety assessment & assurance
  • Software product and process evaluation and improvement
  • Methodologies support for development of safety related systems
• Reliability, availability, maintainability and safety domains (RAMS)
• Information security management
• Safety, health and environmental risk management
• Quality management
• Project risk management support
• Information modelling and product lifecycle support
• Earth observation related services

DNV is also involved in building trust and schemes related to safety, product assurance, process and service assurance and certification. Examples of such schemes include:

• an ISVV Process and Facility, including support tools
• a certification regime for GALILEO, including software, systems and applications
• an accreditation scheme for software process certification
• a generic software certification scheme
• product assurance (PA) related to software products and processes

Our experience

With more than ten years experience in the space sector, DNV has been involved in a large number of space projects such as:

• Aeolus
• ATV
• CLUSTER
• EGNOS
• Envisat
• GALILEO
• GMES
• Huygens
• Mars Express
• MetOp
• MSG
• Rosetta
• SOHO