NASA Procedural Requirements

NPR 8715.7B Effective Date: April 27, 2020 Expiration Date: April 27, 2025

Subject: Payload Safety Program

Responsible Office: Office of Safety and Mission Assurance

Chapter 1. Overview

1.1 Introduction

1.1.1 NASA payloads often incorporate hazards which can pose significant risk to life and property. NASA payload missions require the coordination of efforts among a diverse group of participants who have varying responsibilities and authorities. These missions can present unique challenges to the payload safety assurance process, which often involves numerous organizations internal and external to the Agency. The Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) has established the NASA Payload Safety Program to assist payload projects in achieving safe design objectives, obtaining the necessary safety approvals, and assuring that the objectives are satisfied for all payload missions.

1.1.2 The key technical objectives for the NASA Payload Safety Program are:

a. Contain or mitigate the risk to the public, NASA workforce, and any property requiring protection from hazards associated with payload design, fabrication, testing, integration, processing, launch, and recovery.

b. Ensure risk acceptance decisions are made that integrate concerns for all identified hazards for the payload and ensure Agency risk criteria are satisfied.

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