GDSC Aerospace Test System (ATS)

Abstract

Grumman Data Systems Corporation (GDSC) is presently developing another in a series of computerized realtime systems which accepts, preprocesses, analyzes and displays telemetry and range data. This new Aerospace Test System (ATS) will first be utilized by the Navy at the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC). The computerized test system will analyze data, in realtime, being telemetered from missiles, aircrafts and satellities. The system will accept, decommutate/demodulate, preprocess, analyze and display data being transmitted in the forms of PCM, PDM, PAM, and FM. The system will allow test personnel to continually monitor, in realtime, critical raw and calculated parameters. The answers provided to test personnel, in one phase of the mission, will give them the ability to proceed into the next with a high degree of confidence. The vast amounts of data acceptable by the system, together with its analytical and display capabilities will allow test personnel to accomplish several tests during a single time frame. The system will also allow test personnel to be in complete control of their mission via the data uplink capability. It is a system that support Batch, Time Share, and Remote job entry processing concurrently. Utilized properly, it can greatly reduce the quantity and increase the quality of batch processing.