ISO 10786:2011确立了设计要求；材料选择和表征；制作测试和检查空间系统中的所有结构物项，包括消耗性和可重复使用的运载火箭、卫星及其有效载荷。当为特定空间系统实施时，它将确保在其计划任务的所有阶段实现安全可靠运行的高度信心。 ISO 10786:2011特别适用于所有结构物项，包括任务所有阶段用于空间系统的断裂关键硬件，但以下例外情况除外:自适应结构、发动机和热防护系统。

ISO 10786:2011 establishes requirements for the design; material selection and characterization; fabrication; testing and inspection of all structural items in space systems, including expendable and reusable launch vehicles, satellites and their payloads. When implemented for a particular space system, it will assure high confidence in achieving safe and reliable operation in all phases of its planned mission. ISO 10786:2011 applies specifically to all structural items, including fracture-critical hardware used in space systems during all phases of the mission, with the following exceptions: adaptive structures, engines and thermal protection systems.