NASA Systems Engineering Handbook: UPDATED Jan 27, 2020 - Most Recent Edition

by National Aeronautics and Space Administration

* Kindle Version - 295 Pages *

Most Recent Version of Rev 2 - Updated January 27, 2020


This handbook is intended to provide general guidance and information on systems engineering that will be useful to the NASA community. It provides a generic description of Systems Engineering (SE) as it should be applied throughout NASA. A goal of the handbook is to increase awareness and consistency across the Agency and advance the practice of SE. This handbook provides perspectives relevant to NASA and data particular to NASA.

This handbook consists of six
(1) an introduction,
(2) a systems engineering fundamentals discussion,
(3) the NASA program/project life cycles,
4) systems engineering processes to get from a concept to a design,
(5) systems engineering processes to get from a design to a final product, and
(6) crosscutting management processes in systems engineering.

The chapters are supplemented by appendices that provide outlines, examples, and further information to illustrate topics in the chapters. The handbook makes extensive use of boxes and figures to define, refine, illustrate, and extend concepts in the chapters.

Finally, it should be noted that this handbook provides top-level guidance for good systems engineering practices; it is not intended in any way to be a directive.

538 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 20, 2022

About the author

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.