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Description of a tool to support creation of proposed facilities based on user-selected criteria. This tool can be used to support or provide better options for the microgrid optimization tool ReNCAT.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF) entered a User Proposal with Perseus Materials in Knoxville, TN. By reinventing how composites are made, we unlock a new era of structural materials: faster to produce, easier to assemble, and strong enough for real-world scale. Perseus Materials was targeting the wind turbine industry to make large adhesive joints for composite turbine blades without the limitations of cure time and room temperature cure without the needs to have work times. The triggerable aspect would increase manufacturing rates for composite wind turbine blades.
The Agricultural Ice Nuclei at Southern Great Plains Supplemental Sampling (AGINSGP-SUPP) field campaign took place from April 8 to April 28, 2022. It included sample collection and analysis of filter samples for ice-nucleating particle (INP) concentrations. By enabling quantification of INPs at warmer temperatures (i.e., T > 258 K), these samples complemented the real-time observations of INPs that were performed as part of the AGINSGP campaign during the same period. In addition to collecting ground-based samples, the campaign collected vertical samples of INPs aboard the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) tethered balloon system (TBS) as shown in Figure 1. These vertical samples complemented the vertical profiling of aerosol properties that was supported under a related Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) proposal. The overall aim of these three campaigns was to improve understanding of the sources and variability in observed INP concentrations at ARM’s SGP observatory. For example, warm-temperature INPs in this agricultural region are thought to originate in part from regional emissions of fertile, agricultural soils containing high organic content. Laboratory experiments have shown that soil particles with high organic content are more efficient INPs than inorganic soils (e.g., Tobo et al. 2014). Quantification of warm-temperature INPs under ambient conditions currently can only be achieved via offline methods such as the ARM ice-nucleation spectrometer (INS). Therefore, offline sampling for the INS was required to complement the real-time INP measurements conducted during the AGINSGP campaign.
Performance data are presented for the tunnel, which has a Mach number range from 0.36 to 2.0. The tunnel circuit, test section, model support systems, auxiliary systems, instrumentation, control room equipment, and automatic recording and computing equipment are also described. Information is presented on criteria for designing models and on shop facilities available to prospective users.
The processing of time in the Orbiter System Services software and the associated facilities provided to the user community are described. The descriptions are directed toward showing the functional intent of the design rather than the actual implementation. Simplified flow diagrams are included. Based upon detailed analysis of a preliminary review copy of the Approach and Landing Test (ALT) System Software Detailed Design Specification and the Program Listings for Version 17 Prime, the processing of time has the potential for error free operations. The processing of time is not expected to change between ALT and the Operational Flight Test (OFT) other than differences in value of some constants for control and limit checking. Due to the dynamic nature of onboard time processing and its criticality to the successful operation of the orbiter, it is recommended that a comprehensive list of external variables, their locations, initial values, and a 'where used' listing be produced, as a by-product of the link edit process, for all non-HAL coding. In addition, a careful review of the verification test procedures for the System Services time-related software is recommended.
A multiport pressure measurement system has been developed for the high data rates and the in situ calibration of electronically scanned pressure (ESP) sensors. The system employs a stand-alone microcomputer, connected to a host computer, for data acquisition and preprocessing. The host computer provides several operational modes. Before each run the in situ calibration of each sensor is automatically performed. Using up to a maximum of 14 data acquisition and control units (DACU's), the system may be expanded from 16 to 10,752 pressure ports. Each DACU can make 20,000 measurements per second, average data, and perform statistical analyses before transferring data to the central unit. The system may be introduced into existing facilities and requires little user orientation.
One of the most important aspects of the interactive portion of the LACIE/ERIPS software system is the way in which the analysis and decision-making capabilities of a human being are integrated with the speed and accuracy of a computer to produce a powerful analysis system. The three major man-machine interfaces in the system are (1) the use of menus for communications between the software and the interactive user; (2) the checkpoint/restart facility to recreate in one job the internal environment achieved in an earlier one; and (3) the error recovery capability which would normally cause job termination. This interactive system, which executes on an IBM 360/75 mainframe, was adapted for use in noninteractive (batch) mode. A case study is presented to show how the interfaces work in practice by defining some fields based on an image screen display, noting the field definitions, and obtaining a film product of the classification map.
A description of a batch of programs for the YeS-1040 computer combined into an automated system for processing photo (and video) images of the Earth's surface, taken from spacecraft, is presented. Individual programs with the detailed discussion of the algorithmic and programmatic facilities needed by the user are presented. The basic principles for assembling the system, and the control programs are included. The exchange format within whose framework the cataloging of any programs recommended for the system of processing will be activated in the future is displayed.
Presentations were grouped in the following categories: (1) a technical orientation of Earth resources remote sensing including data sources and processing; (2) a review of the present status of remote sensing technology applicable to the coastal and marine environment; (3) a description of data and information needs of selected coastal and marine activities; and (4) an outline of plans for marine monitoring systems for the east coast and a concept for an east coast remote sensing facility. Also discussed were user needs and remote sensing potentials in the areas of coastal processes and management, commercial and recreational fisheries, and marine physical processes.
The design options for the space station are discussed in general terms, reflecting the approach taken by the NASA Concept Development Group. Primary aims are flexibility and transparency, to fulfill as many scientific and commercial user requirements as possible and to open the station to as many new users as possible; utilities, facilities, and functional support must be designed to meet these aims. General architecture options considered include the present STS, an extended STS, a limited-duration manned transportation node with unmanned platforms, and a manned station with unmanned platforms and transportation-node capability (OTV, TMS). The latter option is found most promising and developed further, with consideration of the technical challenges involved.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) represents a vital common space support element needed to enable the civil space program and commercial space program to perform their missions successfully. It is pointed out that advances in AI stimulated by the Space Station Program could benefit the U.S. in many ways. A fundamental challenge for the civil space program is to meet the needs of the customers and users of space with facilities enabling maximum productivity and having low start-up costs, and low annual operating costs. An effective way to meet this challenge may involve a man-machine system in which artificial intelligence, robotics, and advanced automation are integrated into high reliability organizations. Attention is given to the benefits, NASA strategy for AI, candidate space station systems, the Space Station as a stepping stone, and the commercialization of space.
The Jovian and Saturnian satellites are being mapped at several scales from Voyager 1 and 2 data. The maps are especially formatted color mosaics, controlled photomosaics, and airbrush maps. At 1:5,000,000 scale, mapping of Io, Europa, and Ganymede is complete. At 1:15,000,000 scale, mapping of Io and Europa is complete, and mapping of Ganymede is approximately complete. A controlled mosaic of Rhea has been compiled as a Digital Image Model (DIM) in the same format as is being used for Mars. The mosaic is being formatted for publication as a two-sheet set (Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area, Mercator, and Polar Stereographic projections). Magnetic tape copies of the DIM have been distributed to regional Planetary Image Facilities and other interested users. The DIM has a scale of 1/16 degree/pixel, corresponding to approximately 833 m/pixel on Rhea. Details of the status of the various map series are reported quarterly to Planetary Geology Principal Investigators.
A distributed data acquisition and control system has been developed for the NASA Flight Loads Research Facility. The DACS II system is composed of seven computer systems and four array processors configured as a main computer system, three satellite computer systems, and 13 analog input/output systems interconnected through three independent data networks. Up to three independent heating and loading tests can be run concurrently on different test articles or the entire system can be used on a single large test such as a full scale hypersonic aircraft. Thermal tests can include up to 512 independent adaptive closed loop control channels. The control system can apply up to 20 MW of heating to a test specimen while simultaneously applying independent mechanical loads. Each thermal control loop is capable of heating a structure at rates of up to 150 F per second over a temperature range of -300 to +2500 F. Up to 64 independent mechanical load profiles can be commanded along with thermal control. Up to 1280 analog inputs monitor temperature, load, displacement and strain on the test specimens with real time data displayed on up to 15 terminals as color plots and tabular data displays. System setup and operation is accomplished with interactive menu-driver displays with extensive facilities to assist the users in all phases of system operation.
Window Utility System computer program provides full-featured screen-management windowing software facility incorporated easily into user application programs. Developed to provide more pleasing user interface for CLIPS, C-Language Integrated Production System expert-system-development shell program. Also used with many other application programs in VAX/VMS language. Provides pull-down menus and multiple window displays at minimal cost. Written in VAX C.
The general configuration, development schedule, and capabilities of the NASA International Space Station are reviewed, with an emphasis on the possibilities for long-term measurements of high-energy cosmic and secondary radiation from the main Station spacecraft, coorbiting or polar-orbit platforms, or Station-supported GEO satellites. Also outlined are the organizational structure and the application procedures to be followed by potential users of the Station facilities. Diagrams and drawings are provided.
Science requirements for a moderate resolution imaging spectrometer (MODIS) data system are outlined, as well as the operations concept and system specifications based on these requirements. Two systems are considered - MODIS-N for a 40-channel nadir-viewing scanner and MODIS-T for a 64-channel tiltable scanner. The first system collects data from 15 thermal-infrared channels at all times and from 25 reflected-energy channels during daytime, while MODIS-T will take data from 64 channels on a 100-percent duty cycle during daytime only. Standard data products, data acquisition and processing, and requirements on data are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the interfaces between the science data processing facilities and the scientific users.
Some goals of this network are as follows: Extend U.S. technological leadership in high performance computing and computer communications; Provide wide dissemination and application of the technologies both to the speed and the pace of innovation and to serve the national economy, national security, education, and the global environment; and Spur gains in the U.S. productivity and industrial competitiveness by making high performance computing and networking technologies an integral part of the design and production process. Strategies for achieving these goals are as follows: Support solutions to important scientific and technical challenges through a vigorous R and D effort; Reduce the uncertainties to industry for R and D and use of this technology through increased cooperation between government, industry, and universities and by the continued use of government and government funded facilities as a prototype user for early commercial HPCC products; and Support underlying research, network, and computational infrastructures on which U.S. high performance computing technology is based.
In order to provide new furnace technology to accommodate microgravity research studies and commercial applications in material processes, research has been initiated on the development of the Programmable-Multi-zone Furnace (PMZF). The PMZF is described as a multi-user materials processing furnace facility that is composed of thirty or more heater elements in series on a muffle tube or in a stacked ring-type configuration and independently controlled by a computer. One of the aims of the PMZF project is to allow furnace thermal gradient profiles to be reconfigured without physical modification of the hardware by creating the capability of reconfiguring thermal profiles in response to investigators' requests. The future location of the PMZF facility is discussed; the preliminary science survey results and preliminary conceptual designs for the PMZF are presented; and a review of multi-zone furnace technology is given.