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Topic: Shuttle avionics laboratories: ADL and SAIL
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JBoe
Member Posts: 960
From: Churchton, MD
Registered: Oct 2012
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posted 07-29-2016 05:38 PM
   
What were the start and end dates of the Shuttle Avionics Development Lab (ADL) and the Shuttle Avionics Integration Lab (SAIL)? I'm assuming that there was continual refinement of the avionics throughout the shuttle programs, but when was the development lab discontinued? Thanks! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-29-2016 07:12 PM
According to a NASA release, IBM was awarded the contract for the "design, development and maintenance of test software" for both the ADL and SAIL in September 1973.According to the historical documentation of the SAIL conducted by Archaeological Consultants for NASA in June 2010: The SAIL was officially accepted in its original configuration, patterned after the Orbiter Enterprise, on February 21, 1977, for its first assignment: providing support for the ALT program. The SAIL marked its retirement with the landing of STS-135 on July 21, 2011. The facility was used to test the flight software for all 135 space shuttle missions.According to a Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel 1975 report: The ADL is an engineering tool with emphasis on avionics hardware development, subsystem evaluation and initial hardware integration. This facility is located at Rockwell International's Space Division, Downey, CA. I don't see an end date for the ADL, but I see references to all of the work supporting the space shuttle at Downey being complete by 1988 (and the overall Rockwell (Boeing) facility was closed in 1999). | |
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