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>> Thank you and good morning.
My name is Teresa Wong and I'm part
of the dreaded payload safety process.
And I'm here to tell you, it's not all that bad,
I promise, it's going to be ok.
So unfortunately, the charts that I'm going
to talk this morning are slightly different
from the charts that you have on your CD's,
but the correct charts will be posted to the website.
And if not, you can contact me,
I'll send you the charts, whichever.
Also, I'm going to be covering some of the ground safety,
ground safety review panel process.
Unfortunately, none of the ground safety guys could make it
out here and talk to you guys, so I'm going to cover
that as best as I can, since our processes are very similar.
You can go off to the next slide please.
So just a quick overview of what I'm going
to highlight this morning.
I'll tell you all about the PSRP, GSRP, how we're made up,
what we do, what you do as payload organizations,
and how to get through up to flight.
Next slide please.
So the GSRP is significantly smaller than our PSRP,
Paul Kirkpatrick is GSRP chair.
James Minnear is the deputy chair,
Maxine Daniels will handle all of our GSRP Data, excuse me,
and then you have your ground safety engineers.
Next slide.
PSRP has three chairs and lucky for me, I have Scott Wolfe,
one of our PSRP chairs, here with me,
so if you have any really hard questions,
that's above my pay grade, ask Scott.
>> No, ask her.
>> We also have three executive officers for the PSRP
and they are the process owners.
They own how we do business, basically,
and they own the rules of the game.
Ray and myself are the technical aids for the team
and Mindi Munhd is the queen of our data management system.
All of the data that you submit to us will go through Mindy
and she manages that website and that database.
We have our technical writers
and our team of safety engineers.
We are a total of 13 payload safety engineers,
including myself and Ray.
And depending upon the complexity of your payloads,
you will have one to three, maybe four,
it depends on the complexity of your payload.
Next slide please.
So these next two slides are, is a lot
and you can't really read them, but the point I'm going to try
to make to you is we have a lot of people who support the PSRP.
And you know, if you have some crazy laser in your payload,
we have the laser guys to talk to.
If you want to send a [inaudible] out a girlfriend
up to space, we have people who can help you with that too.
So if we don't have the people readily available,
we know people who know people, so it's going to be ok.
You can skip over slide six and go to slide seven please.
Key documents for you, we live and breathe off of 13830,
both the GSRP and PSRP.
13830 will be your key document here.
It is our process document.
It lays out all of the data submittal requirements,
when to submit, what to submit and to who you need
to submit your data to.
KSC uses the KNPR document that was formerly known
as the KHB1700 document.
If you've ever used the and went through KSC before,
their handbook has been superseded by this KNPR book.
None of the requirements have changed,
is what Paul Kirkpatrick told me, it's just it looks different
and it's in a different book,
but the requirements are all still the same.
PSRP uses that 2NSTS1900.7 books,
the ISS addendum is strictly for the ISS
and the core document is for the shuttle.
I was leading a team of folks to transition the ISS addendum
to a station centric document and that has yet to be approved.
It's in signature cycle right now.
And that is the SSP51700 book.
So once that gets released, that will supersede the ISS addendum.
The 18798 book, only in NASA, will you find a book
that interprets the requirements for the book.
That's essentially what it is and we're working
to transition probably to incorporate some
of these interpretation letters into our requirements,
but that will be future revisions for the 51700 book.
26943 is a great resource
if you've never written a hazard report before.
It kind of outlines the expectations from the PSRP
for certain generic hazards that we have.
Even if you have written a hazard report before,
but you're dealing with some crazy battery chemistry
that you know, you don't know how
to write a battery unique hazard report,
26943 has a generic battery hazard report for you
that is a great starting point for you.
Next slide please.
The other two documents
that I have listed here are really specific to toxicological
and biological materials
that you may have in your experiments.
They require specific, a different subset
of requirements, data [inaudible], sorry.
You can get all this stuff through our websites and if
for some reason, you're not able to get
to the website, let us know.
We'll help you and we'll get the documents to you,
or your pin will also help you with that as well.
Next slide please.
So, what do we do?
We make sure your hardware is safe.
We protect the crew, be it ground or on orbit.
We make sure it doesn't hurt anybody or yourselves.
Ground covers everything that is processed at KSC.
If you're launching on an IP vehicle,
I would suggest you follow the rules of the game
from that IP specific launch vehicle site.
Paul is working with the other IP's to kind of streamline
that process a little bit,
but that's all still kind of in the works.
PSRP covers everything transport and on orbit.
IP vehicles, we make sure your hardware is safe when you arrive
to station; we call it safe on arrival.
Next slide please.
PSRP reviews, your safety data package that you submit to us.
We review your data.
We make sure you comply with our requirements.
And we review your hazard reports
and Scott signs your hazard reports prior to flight.
The PSE's, we will be your liaisons to the panels.
We are the panel's eyes and ears.
We help you coordinate any meetings that you want to come
to the panel and talk to about, any working groups,
and everything else, comments, they all filter through us.
So we are your eyes and ears to the panel.
Next slide.
So, these next two slides, basically,
is just to tell you we have a very broad spectrum
of panel members on both the GSRP and the PSRP.
And we get the different perspectives
from the different directors, it's to kind
of help us make our decision and how we want to move forward.
So, next slide please.
And next slide.
What do you do as the payload organizations?
You build the packages.
You are responsible for the safety of your hardware.
You close out your verifications.
Please make sure that when you submit data packages to us,
that you're conscious about the timelines
that are outlined in 13830.
That's usually what kind of bites the PO's in the butt,
they come to us a week before they need to ship and they say,
oh, we need to do our phase 3.
Oh, why didn't you come and tell us this before?
Our calendar is full.
So, be mindful of your timelines because our calendars do fill
up very, very quickly.
We are scheduling meetings already for November.
So keep that in mind.
We'll accommodate as we can, but its hard sometimes.
Next slide please.
I think this slide basically; I just wanted
to highlight the verification piece again.
You guys are responsible of closing out your verifications.
We'll help you along the way, if it's a verification
that you needed closeouts, say Flight Crew controls,
summary report approval or something crazy like that,
that our engineers and guys will have to give you the approval.
We'll help you interface with our engineering guys,
but its ultimately, you guys own those verifications.
Next slide please.
When are you considered done and ready for flight?
You are done when ground safety says you are done
and signs off on your checklist.
All your hazard reports for flight have been approved,
action items closed, NCR's done, BTL's are closed,
all that is done and wrapped up and we can put a bow on it.
One thing I want to highlight is when you get
to ground processing, and it says that completion of phase 3,
30 days prior to deliver to KSC.
And Paul Kirkpatrick asked me to pass along that if you want
to come before all that and do like a pre-phase 3 review
with the Kennedy guys, fill free to.
If you guys have your hardware built
and operations all laid out, but you're still kind of finalizing,
your tox or bio material, if you kind of have a general idea
of which direction you want to go,
go talk to the ground safety guys.
They'll help you work through the whole thing.
Same thing with us, we're here to help you
through the whole process, come to us whenever you want.
We'll accommodate you.
PSRP, we start tracking flight L-90
and if you didn't think the PSE's were annoying before,
you'll really think we're annoying at L-90,
because we'll bug you for your verification closeouts,
we'll bug you for your safety certs
and all the other documentation that you owe us.
We start tracking it at L-90.
And when all that's said and done,
Scott and the other chairs will submit their code
for endorsements to the program saying, yep, the PO's are safe.
They did what they were going to do.
They did what they said they were going to do and we're good.
Next slide please.
I think I covered most of what was on this slide already,
except that after you're phase 3 and if you've had any anomalies,
testing anomalies or anything, or design changes,
you got to bring them back to the panel.
And we got to report the panel and we got to go
through all that again.
So it'll be a delta phase 3 depending upon impacts
to the safety.
Next slide please.
DMS is where we house all of your data and its all segregated
so that if you have any ITAR expert control data,
nobody else can see your data but you and the PSRP.
All the IP's, if the IP's don't need to see it,
the IP's won't see it.
If you're flying on an IP vehicle, though,
we will be sending your data to the respective IP vehicle owner.
So that needs to be all exported clear data.
You can access the DMS through those websites
and I also put the GSRP website on there for you.
Next slide please.
Mindy Mudd is the queen of the DMS.
She can get you your access to DMS.
She will help you upload your data to DMS.
If you chose not to upload your data, that's okay.
Send it to Mindy and she will be that interface
to making sure all that data is on the DMS.
We will work with Mindy as PSE's, we will work with Mindy
to make sure that the panel gets the data.
And the panels will review the data, submit their comments,
PSE's will compile comments
and send those comments back to you as the PO's.
Next slide please.
One thing that Paul asked me to mention is that a lot
of the times when PO's have tox or bio material
in their hardware, they like to just tell them, tell GSRP, oh,
JSC tox has already bought off on it.
So we're ok.
We don't need to give you anything else.
That's not true.
You know, our JSC tox guys look at it from the perspective
of the hardware is built already
and all your bugs have been filled into the hardware
and the crew is going
to manipulate the hardware on orbit.
The ground crew is worried about you filling the hardware
and building the hardware at KSC.
So if you have any tox or bio material,
please let the KSC guys know.
It's important for them to know what they're dealing with here.
Next slide please.
So this is just kind of a pictorial.
There's not much, not much exciting pictures
that I could show you for the process except
for stuff, timelines.
So this is kind of to show you when we expect
to see the safety data packages and what phase
of your design reviews, and the maturity
of the hazard reports for each phase.
Usually phase 1 is when you have your preliminary design review.
Phase 2, critical design review,
and phase 3 is hardware delivery, hardware's been built
and we're testing and everything else like that.
Next slide please.
This is just another flowchart
of hazard identification process.
So, one thing I want to highlight here is
as you're building and designing your hardware,
please keep safety in mind because a lot of times,
PO's come to the PSRP and they're well
within their design phase of the hardware, come to the PSRP
and say oh, we don't meet this requirement.
We don't have enough levels of containment.
So the PO gets pushed back and they have
to redesign their hardware
and to add an extra level of containment.
So please keep safety in mind as you're going
through this whole process.
Next slide please.
So what do we do if unapproved hardware?
I was kind of desperate for a picture.
[Laughter] So, I know I said a lot and I know I said it before,
just like everybody else here,
we're here to help you get through all of this.
So come to us early in the process and come to us often.
If you do those two things, you're going to be ok.
You'll make it through the safety process,
I promise, it's not that bad.
In the back up charts, I have a lot of more
of the technical aspects of the PSRP, but if you want
to come talk to us offline, please feel free to do so.
You have my contact information, and if not, you can talk to one
of the executive officers.
So, any questions?
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>> You suggest that we come to you often and early.
In putting together our proposal,
we should include this aspect of the safety issues, we will have
to come to Martial, how many times, say, in the space
of development of a payload, this is the third month.
Do you think we should be at Martial?
>> If you're out at Martial, you can come to us whenever,
wherever, we're here at JSC, but if you're stationed
out at Martial and you want to come and talk to us at PSRP,
we can set up a teleconference
and we can have meetings wherever.
>> Ok, so a teleconference is fine.
>> Sure, no problem, we do it all the time.
>> Ok, thank you.
>> Um hum.
>> What's the difference between the process timeline
for an IP launch and a shuttle launch.
Because you said that for IP launches,
you typically [inaudible] for the IP's, right?
>> Yes.
>> So is there another review process there
and how does all that work, I guess.
>> Launch vehicles have their own review process.
I believe ATV and HTV is at O-6 months but the data needs
to be provided to them.
So that, HTV and ATV are a little bit more difficult.
But its workable, we can work through the timeline.
That's what written in the requirements,
I believe, is 0-6 months.
For PSRP, if you do the math, I think its 0-4 months,
is when your data is due.
But your pin should be able to help you with all
that too, your timelines.
Any other questions?
All right, thank you.
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