STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - Just as a steady heartbeat is critical to staying alive, propulsion test data is vital to ensure engines and systems perform flawlessly.
The accuracy of the data produced during hot fire tests at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, tells the performance story.
So, when NASA needed a standardized way to collect hot fire data across test facilities, an onsite team created an adaptable software tool to do it, NASA reports. Continue reading original article.
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
13 May 2025 - "The NASA Data Acquisition System (NDAS) developed at NASA Stennis is a forward-thinking solution," said David Carver, acting chief of the Office of Test Data and Information Management. "It has unified NASA’s rocket propulsion testing under an adaptable software suite to meet needs with room for future expansion, both within NASA and potentially beyond."
Before NDAS, contractors used various proprietary tools for propulsion test data, hindering collaboration. NDAS, developed in 2011 by a NASA-contractor team, standardizes data collection with a modular, scalable system built in LabVIEW. It works with any test hardware, streamlining operations and enabling seamless transitions between test areas. The software captures and converts sensor data for real-time and post-test analysis, also monitoring system health during non-test times.
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Jamie Whitney, Senior Editor
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