Incorporation of Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) technologies into launch vehicle and spacecraft designs offers the potential for significant savings in operations costs. IVHM has three basic objectives. First is more autonomous operation in flight and on the ground, which directly translates to reduced workload on the ground controller team through reduction of raw vehicle data into "health summary information." Next is reduced ground processing of reusable vehicles due to more performance of system health checks in flight rather than back on the ground as well as more automated ground servicing and checkout. Lastly is enhanced vehicle safety and reliability due to increased capability to monitor system health using modern sensing systems inside even the harsh environment of an engine combustion chamber as well as through prediction of pending failures. The "integrated" piece of IVHM is the total integration of flight and ground IVHM elements. The three elements of flight IVHM are advanced light weight/low power sensors, extensive real-time data processing and analysis and distributed data acquisition architecture with high-density mass storage. The two elements of ground IVHM are evolved control room architectures with advanced applications and automated ground processing systems. The status of current flight experiments on the Space Shuttle, Deep Space-1, X-33, X-34 and X-37 is presented.


    Access

    Check access

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Impact of integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) technologies on ground operations for reusable launch vehicles (RLVs) and spacecraft


    Contributors:
    Fox, J.J. (author) / Glass, B.J. (author)


    Publication date :

    2000-01-01


    Size :

    877339 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Impact of Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) Technologies on Ground Operations for Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLVs) and Spacecraft

    Fox, J. J. / Glass, B. J. / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000


    Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLVs) and Cost Engineering Principles

    Koelle, D. E. / International Space University | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2000



    A Strategy for Achieving High Reliability for Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLVs)

    Sholtis, J. A. / Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2002


    An evolutionary plan for rapid deployment of reusable launch vehicles (RLVs)

    Davis, Hubert / Talay, Ted / Wells, Steve | AIAA | 2001