Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
Start Date
24-4-1991 2:00 PM
End Date
24-4-1991 5:00 PM
Description
Preparation and launch operations on the Space Shuttle and its payloads are highly complex. The current Checkout, Control, and Monitor System (CCMS), installed in the mid-1970s to provide prelaunch testing, launch sequencing, and control of the Shuttle, is now approaching the end of its useful life. To meet the increase in launch processing requirements for both the Shuttle and Space Station, NASA has responded to the need to replace this aging system with a new system which incorporates the advantages of modern state-of-the-art real time computers, displays, software, and communications. This effort, known as the Core Electronics System, is being implemented by a NASA/Harris team. The objective is to develop a Generic (or Core) test system, applicable both to Shuttle launch processing and to Space Station integration and test, which will also serve as the basis for future NASA test systems. The Core project will replace the CCMS at KSC and, in parallel, develop and install the Test, Control, and Monitor System (TCMS) for the Space Station. The Core System will serve space exploration well into the twenty-first century. This paper discusses the Core architecture and the benefits it provides to the space community.
Paper Session II-B - The Launch Processing System of Tomorrow
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
Preparation and launch operations on the Space Shuttle and its payloads are highly complex. The current Checkout, Control, and Monitor System (CCMS), installed in the mid-1970s to provide prelaunch testing, launch sequencing, and control of the Shuttle, is now approaching the end of its useful life. To meet the increase in launch processing requirements for both the Shuttle and Space Station, NASA has responded to the need to replace this aging system with a new system which incorporates the advantages of modern state-of-the-art real time computers, displays, software, and communications. This effort, known as the Core Electronics System, is being implemented by a NASA/Harris team. The objective is to develop a Generic (or Core) test system, applicable both to Shuttle launch processing and to Space Station integration and test, which will also serve as the basis for future NASA test systems. The Core project will replace the CCMS at KSC and, in parallel, develop and install the Test, Control, and Monitor System (TCMS) for the Space Station. The Core System will serve space exploration well into the twenty-first century. This paper discusses the Core architecture and the benefits it provides to the space community.
Comments
Space Shuttle and Derivatives
Session Chairman: Brewster H. Shaw, Deputy Director, Space Shuttle Operations, NASA Headquarters
Session Organizer: Patricia Houston, Manager, Project Integration, McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, Kennedy Space Center, FL