Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
Start Date
24-4-1990 2:00 PM
End Date
24-4-1990 5:00 PM
Description
The Kennedy Space Center is responsible for processing a large number of payloads for integration and launch with the Space Shuttle. The processing of unclassified Shuttle mission payloads is the responsibility of the KSC Payload Management and Operations Directorate and its NASA-McDonnell Douglas personnel.
Each individual STS mission may involve several payload elements such as deployable satellites, upperstages, free flying platforms, scientific instrument carriers, as well as flight support equipment. As of this writing, 1990 will see the KSC payload processing organizations supporting the launch and/or download of fifteen different payload elements on eight separate STS launches.
The variety of payloads processed and the lack of similarity among successive mission processing flows provides a rich opportunity to utilize the experiences Q'f the past flows to enhance the payload processing team's future operational activities. The payload processing teams have taken this opportunity to engage, therefore, in some effort to retain the corporate knowledge acquired on each of the STS missions, and to attempt to collect that knowledge in an accessible knowledge base. To that end, a "lessons learned 11 effort forms a part of each of the payload processing operations.
Paper Session I-B - Prelaunch Processing Scientific Payloads Since Challenger: Lessons Learned Exercise
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
The Kennedy Space Center is responsible for processing a large number of payloads for integration and launch with the Space Shuttle. The processing of unclassified Shuttle mission payloads is the responsibility of the KSC Payload Management and Operations Directorate and its NASA-McDonnell Douglas personnel.
Each individual STS mission may involve several payload elements such as deployable satellites, upperstages, free flying platforms, scientific instrument carriers, as well as flight support equipment. As of this writing, 1990 will see the KSC payload processing organizations supporting the launch and/or download of fifteen different payload elements on eight separate STS launches.
The variety of payloads processed and the lack of similarity among successive mission processing flows provides a rich opportunity to utilize the experiences Q'f the past flows to enhance the payload processing team's future operational activities. The payload processing teams have taken this opportunity to engage, therefore, in some effort to retain the corporate knowledge acquired on each of the STS missions, and to attempt to collect that knowledge in an accessible knowledge base. To that end, a "lessons learned 11 effort forms a part of each of the payload processing operations.
Comments
Science Payloads
Session Chairman: Joe Alexander, NASA Assistant Associate Administrator for Space Science and Applications, NASA Headquarters
Session Organizer: Lee O’Fallon, NASA, Kennedy Space Center