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Mission Management Computer and Sequencing Hardware for RLV-TD HEX-01 Mission

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Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator Hypersonic Experiment (RLV-TD HEX-01) mission posed some unique challenges in the design and development of avionics hardware. This work presents the details of mission critical avionics hardware mainly Mission Management Computer (MMC) and sequencing hardware. The Navigation, Guidance and Control (NGC) chain for RLV-TD is dual redundant with cross-strapped Remote Terminals (RTs) interfaced through MIL-STD-1553B bus. MMC is Bus Controller on the 1553 bus, which does the function of GPS aided navigation, guidance, digital autopilot and sequencing for the RLV-TD launch vehicle in different periodicities (10, 20, 500 ms). Digital autopilot execution in MMC with a periodicity of 10 ms (in ascent phase) is introduced for the first time and successfully demonstrated in the flight. MMC is built around Intel i960 processor and has inbuilt fault tolerance features like ECC for memories. Fault Detection and Isolation schemes are implemented to isolate the failed MMC. The sequencing hardware comprises Stage Processing System (SPS) and Command Execution Module (CEM). SPS is ‘RT’ on the 1553 bus which receives the sequencing and control related commands from MMCs and posts to downstream modules after proper error handling for final execution. SPS is designed as a high reliability system by incorporating various fault tolerance and fault detection features. CEM is a relay based module for sequence command execution.

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  1. Indian Space Research Organisation, Trivandrum, Kerala, India

    Sukrat Gupta, Remya Raj, Asha Mary Mathew, Anna Priya Koshy, R. Paramasivam & T. Mookiah

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Gupta, S., Raj, R., Mathew, A.M. et al. Mission Management Computer and Sequencing Hardware for RLV-TD HEX-01 Mission. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. C 98, 725–729 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40032-017-0400-z

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