NASA PCM Telemetry Processing Station

NASA - Launch Control Center (LCC), Florida, USA By Jake Rosenthal, Eastern Sales Manager, Dewesoft LLC, USA Record & Playback Subsystem (RPS) For the new Space Launch System (SLS) rocket NASA has changed the Telemetry Systems configuration to be all Ethernet packet-based using USGS DEM standard spatial file format headers to decode all the messages. Dewesoft and the Realtime & Playback Subsystem Laboratory have developed a power troubleshooting and data collection tool - an Ethernet Receiver plugin for Dewesoft X data acquisition software. In the end, Dewesoft delivered eleven state-of-the-art data acquisition systems and transferred customer Dewesoft X software licenses to the new instruments. NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the national civilian space program, as well as research in aeronautics and aerospace technologies. The new Space Launch System (SLS) is a super heavy-lift expendable launch vehicle, which is under development as of August 2019. It is the primary launch vehicle of NASA's deep space exploration plans, including the planned crewed lunar flights of the Artemis program and a possible follow-on human mission to Mars. The Launch Control Center (LCC) is a four-story building at the southeast corner of the massive Vehicle Assembly Building in the Launch Complex 39 area of the spaceport at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida. Since the unmanned Apollo 4 launch in 1967 LCC has managed launches of spacecraft, including all American space flights with human crews. NASA's 52 Space Shuttle program also used LCC. The center has recently been renovated in preparation for the upcoming SLS missions, which are scheduled to begin in 2020 with Artemis 1. Through 2016 to 2018, the LCC and Launch Complex 39B have seen complete upgrades tailored to the needs of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, and for commercial partners. Among others, Launch Pad 39B has been modified and upgraded with state-of-the-art communications and weather instrumentation systems.

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