The Project/Integration Engineering Group at Wyle is involved in all phases of hardware development from concept to delivery. The Group's major tasks include Testing, Integration, and Certification of biomedical hardware.
Testing has been performed at numerous NASA facilities, including Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Dryden, White Sands, national and international vendors, as well as at its own facilities. Wyle has a unique strength in the testing of flight hardware for use in Russian space vehicles. Wyle has performed acceptance testing on multiple hardware devices for MIR and the International Space Station.
Wyle has been successful in integrating biomedical systems and equipment, both as
payloads and as operational equipment, onto U.S. and Russian vehicles. Wyle has integrated research and operational biomedical equipment on every space flight made by U.S. crewmembers since Shuttle Flight 51B in 1985.
Furthermore, Wyle has been successful in completing Certification on more than 100 different biomedical hardware items. Hardware Certification encompasses the process of demonstrating and documenting that flight hardware and software will survive the rigors of the physical environments to which they may be exposed; while continuing to meet the established hardware performance requirements.
Hardware items integrated into space environments include:
Environmental Monitoring Equipment:
- Total Organic Carbon Analyzer - (water monitoring hardware)
- Volatile Organic Analyzer - (air monitoring hardware)
Health Maintenance Equipment:
- Crew Contamination Protection Kit
- Respiratory Support Pack
Countermeasures Equipment:
- Cycle Ergometer
- Medical Equipment Computer
Integrated testing includes:
- Horizontal Tower Testing
- KC-135 Testing
- Acoustic Noise Testing