ITC/USA 2006 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-Second Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 23-26, 2006 / Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California / The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is developing a new launch vehicle to
replace the Space Shuttle. The Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV) will be a combination of new
design hardware and heritage Apollo and Space Shuttle hardware. The current CLV
configuration is a 5 segment solid rocket booster First Stage and a new Upper Stage design
with a modified Apollo era J-2 engine. The current schedule has an Ascent Development Test
Flight (ADFT-0) with a First Stage and a dummy structurally identical, but without engine,
Upper Stage. The ADFT-0 test results will determine if there will be multiple ADFT flights.
There will be a minimum of two test flights with a full complement of flight hardware. After
the completion of the test flights, the first manned flight to the International Space Station is
scheduled for late 2014.
To verify the CLV’s design margins a developmental flight instrumentation (DFI) system is
needed. The DFI system will collect environmental and health data from the various CLV
subsystems’ and either transmit it to the ground or store it onboard for later evaluation on the
ground. The CLV consists of 4 major elements: the First Stage, the Upper Stage, the Upper
Stage Engine and the integration of these elements together. It is anticipated that each of
CLV’s elements will have some version of DFI. This paper will discuss a conceptual DFI
design for each element and also of an integrated CLV DFI system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/604554 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Crawford, Kevin, Thomas, John |
| Contributors | NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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