2009 Annual Report - NASA Airborne Science Program

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Figure 58: The Experimenter Interface Panel (EIP) unit. Data visualization tools, customized to the different instrument types, are also essential to present the information to the science teams in a usable form for decision making. Software development for this purpose is being led by the University of North Dakota’s National Suborbital Education and Research Center (NSERC) and the Real Time Mission Monitor team at Marshall Space Flight Center. Based on initial implementations by NSERC on the DC-8, these tools will be further implemented in the Global Hawk Operations Center (GHOC) at NASA Dryden in early 2010. Elements of the NASA Ames Collaborative Decision Environment (CDE) and its related web applications, will also be incorporated to facilitate communication and data-sharing with extended science teams across the Internet. Derived from software used to manage the Mars planetary rovers and adapted to airborne platforms for the Western States Fire UAS Missions, the CDE enables realtime interchange between science investigators and mission participants from virtually any location. Along with the complex software required to support the real-time data environment, specialized flight hardware is also required. One essential element is an enhanced version of the navigation data recorders currently in use on the ER-2 and WB-57 aircraft. These units capture platform and other state data from the aircraft avionics systems and re-broadcast them to the payload instruments. Incorporating the Ethernet network functionality developed at Dryden Flight Research Center on the REVEAL project, the next-generation of these systems will be called the NASA Airborne Science Data and Telemetry (NASDAT ) system and is scheduled to deploy 2010. Modified versions of REVEAL were deployed on the P-3 and DC-8 this year, as NASDAT prototypes. Accompanying this will be a new standard Experimenter Interface Panel (EIP) that will provide electrical power, network communications, and the state data feeds to the various aircraft payload areas. The first of the new EIP units were completed in 2009, and will be installed on the Global Hawk, together with a modified REVEAL unit, pending the availability of the new NASDATs. The EIP/NASDAT combination will eventually be installed on all the core NASA science platforms. In addition, the Global Hawk UAS has unique hardware requirements to transform it into a science platform. A Master Payload Control System/ 78
Power Distribution Unit (MPCS/PDU) system, also completed this year, will allow the mission pilot to monitor and control the power and basic functionality of each instrument individually. A separate telemetry Link Module was developed to interface with the high-speed Ku-band satcom system slated for the Global Hawk. The Link Module will include database software and mass storage for buffering science data, and a dedicated computer for onboard processing with mission-specific algorithms. This flight hardware development is being conducted at the Airborne Sensor Facility (ASF) at NASA Ames Research Center. This integrated communications and data-sharing concept will be initially demonstrated on the Global Hawk UAS during its inaugural science missions in early 2010, with the associated visualization and web-based tools being hosted in the Global Hawk Operations Center. It will then be gradually implemented across the NASA airborne science fleet as platforms are upgraded and satellite communications systems become more widely available. A universal web-portal for outside access to the real-time mission data is also slated for implementation. 79
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