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System Integration Applications of Information Systems in the Space Station Freedom Program
Author(s) -
Thomas L. Dale,
Cohen Brad,
Young Judy
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1993.tb01626.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , scope (computer science) , multinational corporation , space (punctuation) , interface (matter) , information system , space station freedom , scale (ratio) , computer science , systems engineering , engineering , engineering management , business , sociology , social science , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , electrical engineering , programming language , operating system , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing
The development of large scale systems necessarily involves a large number of engineering organizations, each working individually to design separate components which will ultimately be integrated. If these organizations are to work concurrently, routine and methodological communication between the engineering organizations is required. One necessary product of this communication is the timely specification and design of the components' mating interfaces. The Space Station Freedom (S.S. Freedom ) program is a multinational venture, with participating agencies including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (United States), the National Space Development Agency of Japan, the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, and the Italian Space Agency. To integrate a project of this scale, with such a large number of participants, a very large quantity of interface development is required to allow the design of the S.S. Freedom's components to proceed concurrently around the world. This paper briefly describes the scope of the system integration task in the S.S. Freedom program and discusses the utilization of an electronic information system specifically developed to facilitate the efficient organization and timely completion of interface design activities.