Orion Spacecraft
Innovative displays
Aerospace Applications North America is part of NASA's ORION Rapid Prototyping Team, assisting the engineers at Johnson Space Center to define and develop innovative displays for NASA's new generation spacecraft.
In this project the responsibility of AANA is to implement operational concepts and test scenarios to help decide on final design issues such as:
- type of controls during the different phases of the flight
- organization of the screens
- hardware specifics
- operational concepts
- display specifications
Software tools
The team implements software programs in C/C++, OpenGL and uses Commercial Software Tools to rapidly provide different teams at Johnson Space Center with the required prototypes to perform tests and evaluations. Examples are:
- system simulators in Matlab/Simulink
- hardware layout and specifics in C/C++ and GL Studio
- display concepts in C/C++ and GL Studio