National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center SAMS Request Background Information 1 Advanced Plant Habitat (APH) Kevin McPherson Eric Kelly Jennifer Keller Ken Hrovat

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center 1.Capabilities and Services 2.Sensor Locations 3.Microgravity Environment Components 4.Three Aspects to Consider 5.Scheduling and Hardware Availability 6.Data Analysis 7.Some Photos 2 Outline

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center Capabilities and Services 3 NASA GRC - continued goal of providing timely and readily accessible acceleration data, along with archival and analysis services for scientific payloads, structural dynamics monitoring, and technology developers. SAMS - the Space Acceleration Measurement System:  has ability to instrument and measure local vibratory regime in all 3 of the ISS labs, including throughout the USL ( 0.01  f  300 Hz ).  given approval for upgrading the control unit, which provides a more robust, long-term solution for continued life-cycle support of the ISS. MAMS - the Microgravity Acceleration Measurement System:  measures the quasi-steady acceleration regime ( f < 0.01 Hz ).  data can be mapped to any location (rigid-body assumed). PIMS - the Principal Investigator Microgravity Services team maintains the acceleration data from the ISS and provides analysis and related services for investigators, sustaining engineering, and the microgravity community at-large.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center 4 Capabilities and Services process & analyze Start Date =5/3/2001 Stop Date =10/1/2013 Stopwatch (hours) =108,816 NASA Sensor Hours ~ 405,976 JAXA Sensor Hours ~ 4,298 Accel. Archive >10TB

5 SAMS/MAMS Sensor Locations SAMS SE F02, MSG upper left seat track SE F03, ER2 lower Z panel SE F04, ER1 lower Z panel SE F05, ER4 drawer 2 SE F08, ER3 seat track TSH-ES05, CIR TSH-ES06, FIR MAMS in ER1 (OSS and HiRAP )

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center Microgravity Environment Components 6 a generic label NOT intended to quantitatively characterize platform

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center 1.Spatial Where is your location of interest (module/rack)? High-frequency vibrations tend to be localized, so request SAMS sensor as close as possible to your location. Low-frequency vibrations tend to be global. MAMS data can be mathematically mapped to your location. 2.Temporal When do you expect to operate? Relative quiet below ~6 Hz during crew sleep. Some investigators leverage crew sleep for sensitive periods. You “batten down the hatches” during reboost perhaps. 3.Spectral Any resonances or sensitivities? Fruit fly investigation has sensitivity between ~ Hz. Marangoni liquid bridge experiment sensitive ~0.25 Hz. 7 Three Aspects to Consider

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center 8 Scheduling and Hardware Availability 1.Spatial There are cable length, and sensor mounting considerations here. Low-frequency vibrations tend to be global, so MAMS has you covered. 2.Temporal SAMS and MAMS have a primary goal to operate continuously. Kevin McPherson for SAMS sensor availability (SE-F02 is an APH candidate with other possible near-term/future requests for support from PaRIS & ESA). 3.Spectral MAMS does not change its operating parameters. For SAMS, it is best to request cut-off frequency that is low, yet above your highest frequency of interest or concern. Given enough advanced notice (about a day), SAMS sensors can be ground-commanded to a cut-off frequency in this set: 25, 50, 100, 200, or 400 Hz. If in doubt, then choose higher cut-off rather than lower, but be aware that there are some analysis trade-offs that favor lower-frequency cut-offs (i.e. sample rates). Usually, once cut-off is decided, we leave it at that value.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center 1.Real-Time PIMS web-site for near real-time auto-updating plots. 2.Off-Line PIMS server for complete access to SAMS and MAMS data with 2-day lag from measurement time. You can self-serve for the processing and analysis you need at your site. You can request tailored analysis from PIMS team. 3.“Roadmaps” PIMS team publishes (via web) a standard set of analysis products to give an overview of the ISS microgravity environment. For vibratory regime (SAMS) these are 8-hour spectrograms (magnitude versus frequency versus time). For quasi-steady regime (MAMS) these are 8-hour, per-axis acceleration versus time plots. 9 Data Analysis

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center Photo of SAMS RTS Drawer RTS Drawer 1 SN 121f02 In the Internal, Active Position SN 121f03 in the Internal, Stowed Position RTS Drawer 1 SN 121f02 In the internal, Active Position SN 121f03 in the External, Deployed Position 10

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center Photo of SAMS Seat Track Device SAMS RTS SE SN 121f08 Deployed on FSL in Columbus Module Using SAMS STD 11

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center Photo of SAMS in the MSG on the ISS 12