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ISS | Space ExplorationInternational Space Station

Chattanooga Engineers Club12 July 2010

Remote Control Software for Experiments on the

International Space Station

Dr. Jim Henry -- UTChattanooga

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Chattanooga Engineers Club12 July 2010

“EXPRESS Payload Simulator” software

carried on the NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis that launched May 14

for installation on the ISS, May 24


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EXPRESS Payload SimulatorFlight Demonstration on ISS

Demonstrating Boeing-Developed

Software Toolkit for Ethernet Lab-Like Architecture(STELLA)

- interfacing to -University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Developed LabVIEW Payload Software Application to Monitor

IBM T61p Laptop

Amanda Rice – Manager – Boeing Huntsville


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UTC LabVIEW Team MembersThese worked on the Boeing/NASA Project

Trevor Elliott Marie Labrie

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Outline

• ISS Summary (NASA advert.)• UTC & LabVIEW (UTC Engr. Advert)

– 21 years at UTC– Payload Software Summary

• Flight Demonstration Configuration• Experiences with the ISS• Acknoledgements• Tonight’s Assignment

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Who is my audience?

1. T/F: John Glenn was the first American-born to orbit the earth

2. T/F: Sally Ride was the first American-born woman in space

3. T/F: Alan Shepherd was the first American-born to go into space (Sub-orbital)

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ISS National Lab

• The U.S segment of the ISS is a national laboratory

• The ISS will further strengthen the pursuit of national priorities for the advancement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

• The ISS National Laboratory will also open new paths for the exploration and economic development of Space.

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ISS National Lab1. The National Laboratory concept is an

opportunity to expand the US economy in space-based research, applications and operations

2. The ISS represents a unique and highly visible national asset with surplus capacity available for a wide spectrum of applications

3. NASA will continue to cover cost of operating and maintaining the ISS, and is highly motivated to work with other agencies and organizations to pursue applications.

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ISS National Lab1. The National Laboratory concept is an

opportunity to expand the US economy in space-based research, applications and operations

2. The ISS represents a unique and highly visible national asset with surplus capacity available for a wide spectrum of applications

3. NASA will continue to cover cost of operating and maintaining the ISS, and is highly motivated to work with other agencies and organizations to pursue applications.

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ISS National Lab• Spaceflight Induced Bone Loss• Constrained Vapor Bubble• Device for the Study of Critical Liquids and Crystallization • Monitoring Crewmember Immune Function• Transgenic Arabidopsis Gene Expression System• Microorganisms and Allergens in Spacecraft• Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean• Remote Atmospheric and Ionospheric Detection system• Microgravity Acceleration Measurement System• Flame Extinguishment Experiment• Investigating Mechanisms of Heart Disease• Protein Crystallization Experiment Onboard JEM• Chaos, Turbulence and its Transition Process in Marangoni Convection• Blood Circulation, Respiration and Cardiac Contractile Function • Development of Higher Plants through Multiple Generations• Exploring Productive Fishing Regions in World Oceans• Progression of a Naturally Occurring Technogenic Catastrophe• Dosimetry for Biological Experiments in Space

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ISS National Lab

Mass: approx 1 million lbsLxWxH: 150x360x66 ftLife: 5-10 more years

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LabVIEW at UTC

• 1989 -- Purchased LabVIEW

• 1989 - 95 -- A variety of feedback control laboratory stations and a distillation column

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LabVIEW at UTC

• 1995 -- First remote internet-operated experiments with a home-built LV web server.

• 1995 - now -- Remotely operated chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering experiments

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LabVIEW at UTC

• Intensive collaboration with Dr. Charles Knight

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ISS EXPRESS Racks

On ISS Duplicate in Huntsville

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LabVIEW Remote Earth-based Example

• Provides command, science telemetry and parameter formatting and routing services to payload software

• Enables operations analogous to Ground Laboratory communications using standard protocols (TCP and UDP plus standard Telnet utility)

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STELLA Summary• Rather than direct

Computer to Computer ethernet communications, STELLA software services capture ethernetcommunications and format and route data appropriately

• Easy to integrate– Integrate STELLA Flight

Software Services with Payload Flight Software

– Integrate STELLA Ground Software Services with MSFC Developed Telescience Resource Kit (TReK) Software

Proprietary

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UTC LabVIEW Payload SoftwareBoeing/UTC EXPRESS Payload Simulator

•Master LabVIEW Program-DATA SERVER•Sound to File•TCP-Data-Server-w-checksum•UDP Data Server•write-filelist•average sound amplitude

Boeing/UTC EXPRESS Payload Simulator Monitor

On-OrbitEXPRESS Rack 1 T61p Laptop

Ground Station

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Boeing Building, Houston

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UTC LabVIEW Payload Software

Boeing/UTC EXPRESS Payload Simulator Monitor

Ground Station

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EPSEXPRESS Payload SimulatorBoeing VSR/Houston

OCOperationController

PROPayload Rack Officer

ISSFE-2

Marshall/Huntsville

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STELLA Demonstration

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STELLA Demonstration

Amanda, Jim Tom, Tony, Ian

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Presentation to NASA

NASA Big Wigs

GOD!This is

really cool!

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After Presentation to NASA

Jim and Amanda Rice, Boeing Projecty Manager, Huntsville

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Acknowledgements

• Boeing Corporation• National Instruments

– Carl Nybro– Ravi Marawar– many others

• Tennessee Taxpayers• Deans at UTC• Many students and colleagues

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Tonight’s Assignment

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

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Tonight’s Assignment

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/

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