Orion Flight Software V&V and Kedalion Engineering Lab Insight
Mark Mangieri · 2010
NASA’s Kedalion engineering analysis lab is on the forefront of validating many of these contemporary IMA based techniques, as they relate to the unique adaptation into a human space vehicle. Kedalion has already validated many of the proposed Orion FSW V&V paradigms using Orion’s precursory Flight Test Article (FTA) Pad Abort 1 (PA-1) program, which was successfully flown in May, 2010 at the White Sands Test Facility (WSMR). The Kedalion lab will evolve its architectures, tools, and techniques in parallel with the evolving Orion program, to gain insight into avionics systems design and to engage in the development and test of such designs.