KSC-DE-512-SM (REV. L), FACILITY SYSTEMS, GROUND SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AND GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT GENERAL DESIGN REQUIREMENTS(29-FEB-2012)

KSC-DE-512-SM (REV. L), FACILITY SYSTEMS, GROUND SUPPORT SYSTEMS, AND GROUND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT GENERAL DESIGN REQUIREMENTS(29-FEB-2012)., KSC-DE-512-SM establishes overall requirements and best design practices to be used at the John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) for the development of ground systems (GS) in support of operations at launch, landing, and retrieval sites. These requirements apply to the design and development of hardware and software for ground support equipment (GSE), ground support systems (GSS), and facility ground support systems (F-GSS) used to support the KSC mission for transportation, receiving, handling, assembly, test, checkout, servicing, and launch of space vehicles and payloads and selected flight hardware items for retrieval. During the 1950s and early 1960s, the Missile Firing Laboratory (later renamed to the Launch Operations Directorate) was the launch operations arm of Redstone Arsenal and the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. The Missile Firing Laboratory used Army specifications and standards for its design and development of ground systems. KSC’s effort to develop standards began with GP-863, General Criteria for Design of New Equipment and Facilities, which was released in July 1970 and updated three years later. GP-863 focused on operability, reliability, maintainability, useful life, environmental, transportability, human performance, safety, logistics, documentation, and quality assurance. KSC-DE-512-SM, Facility Systems, Ground Support Systems, and Ground Support Equipment, General Design Requirements, replaced GP-863 in 1983. The early revisions of KSC-DE-512-SM contained requirements, along with guidance for accomplishing detailed designs. Later revisions became more formal and the “shall” statement became the phrase to identify each requirement. This standards manual supplements NASA-STD-5005 by including KSC-site-specific and localenvironment requirements. KSC-DE-512-SM is a single, complete document for design and development of KSC ground systems for use at launch, landing, and retrieval sites. These requirements and practices are optional for equipment used at manufacturing, development, and test sites.