The IBM System/4 Pi is a family of avionics computers used, in various versions, on the F-15 Eagle fighter, E-3 Sentry AWACS, Harpoon Missile, NASA's Skylab, MOL, and the Space …

The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part …

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM) and Apollo Lunar Module …

With the STS-135 landing, the Space Shuttle Primary Avionics Software System (PASS) has completed over thirty years of operational service as the “brains” of the fly-by-wire Space …

Events affecting the choice of computer systems for the emerging Space Shuttle can be traced back to the Apollo era. Before the first piloted Apollo flight, NASA was working on defining an …

Construction on Columbia, the agency’s first operational Space Shuttle, began less than a year later. The Space Shuttle’s computers, displays and software programs — both for onboard …

The Shuttle Computer Complex provides the on-board data processing capability for Space Shuttle Orbiter avionics. It performs the data processing necessary for guidance, navigation, …

Based on a presentation by Keller (1993) at the panel's information-gathering forum, the following case study describes space shuttle flight software functionality as well as the software …

Space Shuttle Computers Abstract: This paper describes how a set of off-the-shelf general purpose digital computers is being managed in a redundant avionic configuration while …

High-end computing and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) have played a key role in improving and enhancing Shuttle performance, reliability, and safety for more than two decades.