REDUCING MAINTENANCE COSTS ON THE SHUTTLE PROGRAM

• Main Author: Gladney, Ed
• Other Authors: Lockheed Martin Telemetry & Instrumentation
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1996
• Subjects: Data Acquisition; Signal Conditioning; NASA Transducers
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/607585; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/607585

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 28-31, 1996 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California === NASA and Lockheed Martin Telemetry & Instrumentation have jointly developed a new data acquisition system for the Space Shuttle program. The system incorporates new technologies which will greatly reduce manpower requirements by automating many of the functions necessary to prepare the data acquisition system for each shuttle launch. This new system, the Automated Data Acquisition System (ADAS), is capable of configuring itself for each measurement without operator intervention. The key components of the ADAS are the Universal Signal Conditioning Amplifier (USCA), the Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS), and the Data Acquisition System (DAS 450). The ADAS is currently being delivered and installed at Kennedy Space Center. NASA and Telemetry & Instrumentation are actively pursuing commercialization of the ADAS and its associated products which will be available during 1996.