Development of Enhanced Avionics Flight Hardware Selection Process

NASA/TM-2003-212690, Smith, K. and Watson, G.L., Development of Enhanced Avionics Flight Hardware Selection Process, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546-0001, August 2003, pp. 20, Format(s): PDF 4581k

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The primary objective of this research was to determine the processes and feasibility of using commercial off-the-shelf PC104 hardware for flight applications. This would lead to a faster, better, and cheaper approach to low-budget programs as opposed to the design, procurement, and fabrication of space flight hardware. This effort will provide experimental evaluation with results of flight environmental testing. Also, a method and/or suggestion used to bring test hardware up to flight standards will be given. Several microgravity programs, such as the Equiaxed Dendritic Solidification Experiment, Self-Diffusion in Liquid Elements, and various other programs, are interested in PC104 environmental testing to establish the limits of this technology.

Keywords:	flight, cots, commercial off-the-shelf, pc104, qualification
Subjects:	Astronautics: Spacecraft Instrumentation And Astrionics: Spacecraft And Aircraft Instrumentation
ID Code:	643
Deposited On:	14 November 2003