To estimate the availability of the MCE for KOMPSAT I, mathematical models of H/W and S/W availability, the availability estimating methods for parallel and redundant system were presented. Furthermore, to improve and estimate the MCE system availability, we analyzed the computational procedure of redundant methods, and we also included effective switch choosing methods in this paper. The analytical results of the MCE system availability were estimated as follows: - 0.995216 not considering system redundancy, - 0.9955165 considering system redundancy, and -0.9963991 for the time of system real time operation.