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Case Study: NASA Launch and Control Systems
| Title | NASA Launch and Control Systems |
| Application Area | Aerospace and Defense |
| Date Created | 2019 06 05 |
| Stakeholder | Orion Spacecraft |
| Stakeholder POC | |
| DDS Platform | Vendor: Real-Time Innovations (RTI) |
| Source | RTI: Product Overview |
| Keywords | SCADA. sensors, data storage, persistence |
Problem Description
When a missile is launched at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), there are over 400,000 control points that need
to be monitored in real-time to assure that the launch system is working properly and is going as planned
making this one of the largest Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems in the world.
Architecture Overview
[chip]Need to provide an OV1
Conclusion
Data Distribution Service (DDS) was successfully deployed and used during the first launch of the Orion spacecraft. DDS was able to intelligently distributed updates from thousands of sensors in real-time without a huge impact the network.
DDS was also configure with QoS parameters (
DURABILITY QoS Parameter and
DURABILITY_SERVICE QoS Parameter )
to store all the data for later analysis
and help filter (i.e., downsampling) the data for viewing on the HMI Stations in the flight control room.
Source: RTI: Product Overview
