Spacelab mission 1 experiment descriptions second edition
Brief descriptions of experiments and their instrumentation selected for the flight of Spacelab 1 are presented.
Craven, P. D.↗
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Demonstration Advanced Avionics System (DAAS) function description
The Demonstration Advanced Avionics System, DAAS, is an integrated avionics system utilizing microprocessor technologies, data busing, and shared displays for demonstrating the potential of these technologies in improving the safety and utility of general aviation operations in the late 1980's and beyond. Major hardware elements of the DAAS include a functionally distributed microcomputer complex, an integrated data control center, an electronic horizontal situation indicator, and a radio adaptor unit. All processing and display resources are interconnected by an IEEE-488 bus in order to enhance the overall system effectiveness, reliability, modularity and maintainability. A detail description of the DAAS architecture, the DAAS hardware, and the DAAS functions is presented. The system is designed for installation and flight test in a NASA Cessna 402-B aircraft.
Bailey, A. J.↗
The intercrater plains of Mercury and the Moon: Their nature, origin and role in terrestrial planet evolution. Description of units to accompany the geologic terrain map of Mercury's first quadrant
Descriptions and interpretations of surface features are provided to accompany the geologic terrain map of Mercury's first quadrant.
Leake, M. A.↗
Evaluation of management measures of software development. Volume 2: Data description
A detailed description of the data analyzed including definitions of measures, lists of values, and summary statistics are presented. The results of the computer analyses are included.
Page, J.↗
Spacelab Mission 3 experiment descriptions
The Spacelab 3 mission is the first operational flight of Spacelab aboard the shuttle transportation system. The primary objectives of this mission are to conduct application, science, and technology experimentation that requires the low gravity environment of Earth orbit and an extended duration, stable vehicle attitude with emphasis on materials processing. This document provides descriptions of the experiments to be performed during the Spacelab 3 mission.
Hill, C. K.↗
SKYMAP system description: Star catalog data base generation and utilization
The specifications, design, software description, and use of the SKYMAP star catalog system are detailed. The SKYMAP system was developed to provide an accurate and complete catalog of all stars with blue or visual magnitudes brighter than 9.0 for use by attitude determination programs. Because of the large number of stars which are brighter than 9.0 magnitude, efficient techniques of manipulating and accessing the data were required. These techniques of staged distillation of data from a Master Catalog to a Core Catalog, and direct access of overlapping zone catalogs, form the basis of the SKYMAP system. The collection and tranformation of data required to produce the Master Catalog data base is described. The data flow through the main programs and levels of star catalogs is detailed. The mathematical and logical techniques for each program and the format of all catalogs are documented.
Gottlieb, D. M.↗
User's manual for Axisymmetric Diffuser Duct (ADD) code. Volume 2: Detailed ADD code description
The global structure of the code, list of FORTRAN variables, and descriptions of the subroutines for the axisymmetric diffuse duct program are presented.
Anderson, O. L.↗
Test results and description of a 1-kW free-piston Stirling engine with a dashpot load
A 1 kW (1.33 hp) single cylinder free piston Stirling engine was installed in the test facilities at the Lewis laboratory. The engine was designed specifically for research of the dynamics of its operation. A more complete description of the engine and its instrumentation is provided in a prior NASA paper TM-82999 by J. G. Schreiber. Initial tests at Lewis showed the power level and efficiency of the engine to be below design level. Tests were performed to help determine the specific problems in the engine causing the below design level performance. Modifications to engine hardware and to the facility where performed in an effort to bring the power output and efficiency to their design values. As finally configured the engine generated more than 1250 watts of output power at an engine efficiency greater than 32 percent. This report presents the tests performed to help determine the specific problems, the results if the problem was eliminated, the fix performed to the hardware, and the test results after the engine was tested. In cases where the fix did not cause the anticipated effects, a possible explanation is given.
Schreiber, J.↗
Configuration Analysis Tool (CAT). System Description and users guide (revision 1)
A system description of, and user's guide for, the Configuration Analysis Tool (CAT) are presented. As a configuration management tool, CAT enhances the control of large software systems by providing a repository for information describing the current status of a project. CAT provides an editing capability to update the information and a reporting capability to present the information. CAT is an interactive program available in versions for the PDP-11/70 and VAX-11/780 computers.
Decker, W.↗
Description and planned use of a data distribution evaluation system for fiber optic data buses
A general description of a laboratory data distribution evaluation system (DDES) is given and some plans to use the system. The DDES is a microprocessor-based evaluation system consisting of three identical terminals. The DDES provides the capability for evaluating different system protocols and data word structures by making appropriate software changes, and different transmission medias and modulation schemes by making front-end hardware changes. A data multiplexing standard for fiber optic data transmission which parallels MIL-STD-1553B has proposed four different data modulation schemes. These modulation schemes will be described along with the plans to evaluate each of them. NASA-Langley has also been developing a data distribution approach which utilizes optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). A four-port, four-wavelength WDM system will be described along with the planned use of the DDES to evaluate its performance.
Spencer, J. L.↗
Microscopic Lagrangian description of warm plasmas. IV - Macroscopic approximation
The averaged-Lagrangian method is applied to linear wave propagation and nonlinear three-wave interaction in a warm magnetoplasma, in the macroscopic approximation. The microscopic Lagrangian treated by Kim and Crawford (1977) and by Galloway and Crawford (1977) is first expanded to third order in perturbation. Velocity integration is then carried out, before applying Hamilton's principle to obtain a general description of wave propagation and coupling. The results are specialized to the case of interaction between two electron plasma waves and an Alfven wave. The method is shown to be more powerful than the alternative possibility of working from the beginning with a macroscopic Lagrangian density.
Kim, H.↗
Microwave remote sensing of snow experiment description and preliminary results
The active and passive microwave responses to snow were investigated at a site near Steamboat Springs, Colorado during the February and March winter months. The microwave equipment was mounted atop truck-mounted booms. Data were acquired at numerous frequencies, polarizations, and angles of incidence for a variety of snow conditions. The experiment description, the characteristics of the microwave and ground truth instruments, and the results of a preliminary analysis of a small portion of the total data volume acquired in Colorado are documented.
Ulaby, F. T.↗
A lifting surface computer code with jet-in-crossflow interference effects. Volume 1: Theoretical description
A method is proposed to combine a numerical description of a jet in a crossflow with a lifting surface panel code to calculate the jet/aerodynamic-surface interference effects on a V/STOL aircraft. An iterative technique is suggested that starts with a model for the properties of a jet/flat plate configuration and modifies these properties based on the flow field calculated for the configuration of interest. The method would estimate the pressures, forces, and moments on an aircraft out of ground effect. A first-order approximation to the method suggested is developed and applied to two simple configurations. The first-order approximation is a noniterative precedure which does not allow for interactions between multiple jets in a crossflow and also does not account for the influence of lifting surfaces on the jet properties. The jet/flat plate model utilized in the examples presented is restricted to a uniform round jet injected perpendicularly into a uniform crossflow for a range of jet-to-crossflow velocity ratios from three to ten.
Furlong, K. L.↗
LANDSAT-4 System Description
The LANDSAT 4 system design and capabilities are examined. A detailed description of the satellite is presented as well as ground control facility responsibilities, image processing and communications, and examples of TM and MSS data.
Theodore C Aepli↗
Thematic Mapper (TM) Instrument Description
A detailed description of the thematic mapper (TM) instrument is presented in chart form. A comparison is made between TM and MSS capabilities. Applications for TM data are also included.
Engel, J.↗
Test results and description of a 1 kW free-piston Stirling engine with a dashpot load
A 1 kW (1.33 hp) single cylinder free piston Stirling engine was installed in the test facilities at the Lewis laboratory. The engine was designed specifically for research of the dynamics of its operation. A more complete description of the engine and its instrumentation is provided in a prior NASA paper TM-82999 by J. G. Schreiber. Initial tests at Lewis showed the power level and efficiency of the engine to be below design level. Tests were performed to help determine the specific problems in the engine causing the below design level performance. Modifications to engine hardware and to the facility where performed in an effort to bring the power output and efficiency to their design values. As finally configured the engine generated more than 1250 watts of output power at an engine efficiency greater than 32 percent. This report presents the tests performed to help determine the specific problems, the results if the problem was eliminated, the fix performed to the hardware, and the test results after the engine was tested. In cases where the fix did not cause the anticipated effects, a possible explanation is given. Previously announced in STAR as N83-27346
Schreiber, J.↗
Description of the containerless melting of glass in low gravity
A brief description is given of a single-axis, acoustic levitator/furnace apparatus used to position, heat, melt, and quench multicomponent oxide, glass-forming compositions in low gravity. This apparatus is capable of processing eight approximately spherical samples (about 6 mm diameter) at temperatures up to 1550 C in a dry air atmosphere. Results are also presented for a containerless melting experiment conducted on SPAR VI where a ternary CaO-Ga2O3-SiO2 composition was levitated and quenched to a glass. Selected properties of the glass prepared on SPAR VI are compared with the properties of glass samples of identical composition prepared on earth.
Ray, C. S.↗
Issues in Developing a Normative Descriptive Model for Dyadic Decision Making
Most research in modelling human information processing and decision making has been devoted to the case of the single human operator. In the present effort, concepts from the fields of organizational behavior, engineering psychology, team theory and mathematical modelling are merged in an attempt to consider first the case of two cooperating decisionmakers (the Dyad) in a multi-task environment. Rooted in the well-known Dynamic Decision Model (DDM), the normative descriptive approach brings basic cognitive and psychophysical characteristics inherent to human behavior into a team theoretic analytic framework. An experimental paradigm, involving teams in dynamic decision making tasks, is designed to produce the data with which to build the theoretical model.
Serfaty, D.↗