Space Shuttle Payload Bay acoustics

A Market-Based Mechanism for Allocating Space Shuttle Secondary Payload Priority

This is an investigation into the design of a market-based process to replace NASA’s current committee process for allocating Shuttle secondary payload resources (lockers, Watts and crew). The market-based process allocates budgets of tokens to NASA internal organizations that in turn use the budget to bid for priority for their middeck payloads. The scheduling algorithm selects payloads by pri...

Optimizing Control of Open Bay Acoustics

∗ Associate Fellow AIAA; President, Innovative Technology Applications Company, Chesterfield, MO † Post Doctoral Researcher, presently residing in Argentina ‡ Ph. D. Candidate, Dept. of Mathematics § Director of the Center for Research in Scientific Computation and University Professor and Drexel Professor of Mathematics ¶ Associate Professor of Mathematics and Associate Director of the Center ...

Automating Planning and Scheduling of Shuttle Payload Operations

This paper describes the DATA-CHASER Automated Planner/Scheduler (DCAPS) system which automated generation and repair of command sequences for the DATA-CHASER shuttle payload. DCAPS uses general Artificial Intelligence (AI) heuristic search techniques, including an iterative repair framework in which the system iteratively resolves conflicts with the state, resource, and temporal constraints of...

Space Shuttle Technical Conference

Modeling the Space Shuttle

We summarize our methodology for modeling space shuttle processing using discrete event simulation. Why the project was initiated, what the overall goals were, how it was funded, and who were the members of the project team are identified. We describe the flow of the space shuttle flight hardware through the supporting infrastructure and how the model was created to accurately portray the space...