Gaia People

Stefano Scaglioni

European Space Operations Centre

Stefano Scaglioni is Product Assurance (PA) and Safety Manager working in the Quality Office of the ESA Human Spaceflight and Operations Directorate in ESOC, since 2001. He is leading a team of PA Engineers supporting all the satellite missions operated by ESOC and some ESA infrastructure projects.

Gaia is one of the ESA missions where Stefano is involved, in collaboration with Paolo De Meo. The PA tasks in the Gaia Mission Operations Centre (MOC) include the set up and control of the anomaly management process, the configuration management process, and the documentation management process. For this purpose, the PA representative provides and maintains PA tools to be tailored according to Gaia MOC needs. The PA representative is also responsible for the demonstration of the compliance to the Gaia MOC dependability requirements via Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, and Safety (RAMS) analyses. Finally, the PA representative supports the management of Gaia MOC risks and the collection of Gaia lessons learned.

Published: 01/02/2013