Space Shuttle Ground Processing with Monitoring Agents

  • Authors:
  • Glenn S. Semmel;Steven R. Davis;Kurt W. Leucht;Daniel A. Rowe;Kevin E. Smith;Ladislau Boloni

  • Affiliations:
  • NASA Kennedy Space Center;NASA Kennedy Space Center;NASA Kennedy Space Center;NASA Kennedy Space Center;NASA Kennedy Space Center;University of Central Florida

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

To assure the Space Shuttle and all associated subsystems are ready for launch, Kennedy Space Center engineers must monitor tens of thousands of telemetry measurements of ground-processing data. This intense data monitoring occurs constantly during ground processing, but peaks in the days and weeks leading up to launch. To assist engineers in this around-the-clock monitoring of thousands of measurements, a software agent, the NASA Engineering Shuttle Telemetry Agent (NESTA), was recently developed and deployed at KSC. NESTA operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, sniffing out predefined data patterns of interest and instantly notifying shuttle engineers via email or wireless page.