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NASA required a work platform system to support the integration and test activities for the Servicing Payload (SP) and Space Vehicle (SV) for the OSAM-1. KBR contracted with Spika to satisfy this requirement with a height adjustable work platform system that supported four main SP/SV integration height and access configurations. The Spika stand also incorporated an overhead gantry with a 1,200 lb. capacity to support a “mockup” spacecraft used in the testing of the Servicing Payload.
NASA sought out a work platform to support the integration and test activities for both the Servicing Payload (SP) and Space Vehicle (SV) for the OSAM-1 (On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1) mission. The work platform was needed to serve as the walking/working area used to support personnel and equipment during the Integration and Test (I&T) of the Servicing Payload and Space Vehicle. The work platform also had to support a gantry and other MGSE required to perform multiple tests on subsystem functionality for the OSAM-1. The tests would take place within a Class 10K clean room at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, USA.
Over the course of a year, Spika developed real-time, tailored engineering solutions that satisfied the rigorous and unique requirements for the direct-interfacing flight hardware ground support equipment (GSE). The resulting design provided access for four primary integration activities that required different deck configurations and keep-out zones, as well as different heights, within a Class 10k clean room environment. Spika, KBR, and NASA met regularly throughout this period to revise the concept and review engineering analyses and other objective quality elements (OQEs) provided by Spika for the program.
