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The Special Instrumentation Lab develops automated instruments for field inspection and non-destructive evaluation of flight hardware. The lab develops instrumentation which is not commercially available which improves the safety, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of launch and landing operations at Kennedy Space Center.
Examples of current projects are the Automatic Window Inspection Device for Orbiter windows; the Surface Defect Analyzer, which measures surface defects on critical flight hardware in real-time, precluding time-consuming mold impressions; systems to detect corrosion under paint on flight hardware, and to detect debonds under the External Tank's sprayed on foam insulation.
Automated Window Inspection Device (AWID)
Multispectral Detection of Hydrogen Flames
Surface Defect Analyzer
Doppler Radar Wind Profiler (DRWP)
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William R. Helms, Chief (william.helms-1@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov)