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Tony
U.S. Government
MEMORANDUM
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center NASA
 
REFER
TO: CB    

DATE
December 11, 1981

INITIATOR
CB/AWEngland:jhm:12/11/81:2411

ENCL

TO: Orbit Group

FROM: CB/A. W. England

CC

SIGNATURE
Tony England Tony England

SUBJ: Cargo Operations At KSC

El Onizuka recently arranged an excellent briefing by Wiley Williams' people on cargo operations at KSC. As the Orbiter matures, its cargo will become increasingly our business. We will all get to know a little about KSC's cargo operations. This note summarizes the Williams briefing.

KSC's operational directorates are Vehicle Operations (VO) under George Page, and Cargo Operations (CO) under Tom Walton. Cargo Operations has 2 operational sub-directorates: STS Cargo Operations (CS) under Wiley Williams, and Expendable Vehicle Operations (CV) under Charles Gay. Our briefing concerned STS Cargo Operations (CS organization attached).

All CS offices are located in the north half of the Operations and Checkout (O&C) Building at KSC. Most of CS's checkout equipment for integrated tests (those requiring GRP, MDM, PDI, etc.) are in the 2 Automated Checkout Equipment (ACE) rooms above the high bay in the O&C. CS is responsible for all STS payload hardware and software at KSC--both pre- and post-mission. CS has 3 divisions: Experiment Processing Division (CS-EPD) under Bill Jewell, Spacelab/Horizontal Payload Division (CS-SHD) under Roger Gaskins, and Multi-Mission/Vertical Payloads Division (CS-MVD) under Ernie Reyes.

Payload testing performed by CS includes:
Level IV - Interface Verification (copper path and S/W compatibility)

Level II/III - Mission sim and end-to-end. (Note: Originally, level III was an experiment-pallet test, and level II was a pallet-orbiter test. They are now combined. Mission sim uses normal flight procedures per FDF. This is the most extensive functional test. CITE (Cargo Integration Test Equipment) refers to the level II/III test configuration for end-to-end test, e.g., POCC-orbiter--Payload test. CITE generally uses some subset of the Mission Sim OMI. CITE end-to-end is to be deleted after Spacelab-2.

IV, and II/III (mission sim and CITE end-to-end)occur in the O&C for horizontal payloads, like OSTA 1&2, OSS 1&2, Spacelab, etc., and in the Vertical Processing Facility (VPF) for vertical payloads like satellites with PAM or IUS (although

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