Tabulation of Power-Related Satellite Failure Causes

Satellite on-orbit failures are rare, but costly. Understanding causes of failures has benefits to commercial, government, and military satellite customers. In order to understand the causes of power-system related failures, publicly-available data sources were analyzed to catalog anomalies and failures of spacecraft in orbit due to power-system related failures. The tabulation incorporates data on 158 failures occurring between 1990 and the spring of 2013.