The redirection of NASA away from the Constellation program calls for heavy reliance on commercial launch vehicles for the near future in order to reduce costs and shift focus to research and long term space exploration. To support them, NASA will renovate Kennedy Space Center's launch facilities and make them available for commercial use. However, NASA's current launch software is deeply connected with the now-retired Space Shuttle and is otherwise not massively compatible. Therefore, a new Launch Control System must be designed that is adaptable to a variety of different launch protocols and vehicles. This paper exposits some of the features and advantages of the new system both from the perspective of the software developers and the launch engineers.


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    Title :

    Launch Control Systems: Moving Towards a Scalable, Universal Platform for Future Space Endeavors


    Contributors:
    J. Sun (author)

    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    11 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English