LabVIEW POWER Programming
By Gary W. Johnson (ed)

Chapter 12: Advanced LabVIEW Applications for Space Missions

Chapter 12: Advanced LabVIEW Applications for Space Missions
Ed Baroth, Ph.D., and George Wells
Measurement Technology Center (MTC), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Overview
The Measurement Technology Center (MTC) evaluates commercial data acquisition, analysis, display, and control hardware and software products that are then made available to experimenters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In addition, the MTC acts as an internal systems integrator to deliver turnkey measurement systems that include software, user interfaces, sensors (such as thermocouples and pressure transducers), and signal conditioning, plus data acquisition, analysis, display, simulation, and control capabilities. The MTC also supports flight projects at JPL by supplying a variety of ground support equipment.
A variety of applications related to space missions have been developed by the MTC. They include the Galileo mission discussed in this chapter, as well as the BETSCE experiment and Mars Sojourner Rover mission described in Chap. 11, ?Data Acquisition from Space via the Internet.? Some additional remarks will be made regarding applications of LabVIEW for flight code itself.
This chapter is not a programming tutorial, but rather a demonstration of the capabilities of LabVIEW in signal analysis and troubleshooting. If you have any doubts regarding the applicability of graphical programming and personal computers to mission-critical systems, this article should put them to rest.
LabVIEW Supports the Galileo Spacecraft
The original Galileo software application discussed here was created as the result of parallel development competition between a graphical programming team and a text-based (C) programming team (Wells...
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