S&MA/Assurance and Safety Engineering Payload Safety Flight Status (PSFS) Electronic Data Management Reporting Tool
GHG engineers overhauled the PSFS chart with an automated data management tool with electronic reporting capabilities. The new PSFS Data Management Tool captures single pieces of data per cell which differs from the previous PSFS Chart which captured multiple pieces of data per cell and allows for easy manipulation of the data and coding that creates specified outputs. The tool also allows for singular inputs from the Safety Engineers to be transferred into multiple output scenarios for flight management reporting by the Flight Lead. The amount of time spent by Flight Leads in updating and evaluating individual payloads items has been greatly minimized. There has also been a large time savings in providing inputs to the ISS Safety and Mission Assurance and Risk Program Office Open Paper Reporting Tool which required manual data inputs. The updated tool now has an automated report feature which allows for importing of data directly into the Open Paper Reporting Tool. For payload heavy flights (averaging 60 payloads on Shuttle flights and 8 for Progress/Soyuz flights) with multiple lines needed for each payload, providing initial inputs could take hours whereas the new automated feature takes just seconds to produce the report to be imported. This allows the Flight Lead to focus more on the technical issues of the open work as opposed to simply tabulating and manipulating data into the Program Open Paper tool. Recently, the effectiveness of the Reporting Tool has been seen in manipulating the data to provide Payload Flight Metrics to quantify late arriving Safety Data Packages (SDPs) at the request of the PSRP Chair and in support of the ISS S&MA/Program Risk Manager attending the November Multilateral Safety & Mission Assurance Panel (MS&MAP). This data was used in discussions with the International Partners to focus on the increasing trend of late arriving data for manifested flight hardware.