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i'm lori meigs and i'm bill hubshere

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welcome to focus on marshall on today's

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edition we're going to talk to the chief

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information officer out here at the

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marshall space flight center and learn

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more about the many different areas they

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support including this room right here

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where they do i.t security but first

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let's take a look at the reusable solid

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rocket motor project and their latest

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nighttime test

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we're in building 4202 and we are joined

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by jody singer she is the manager of the

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reusable solid rocket motor project

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first of all thanks a lot for being here

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today you're welcome let's start with uh

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well a definition of of the office and

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what your part of the mission is here

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okay with the reusable solid rocket

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motor or referred to as the rsrm we're

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responsible for making sure the hardware

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is ready to fly

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making sure that it's safe that we've

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processed it right and that we deliver

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it to our customer down at the ksc to

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make sure that it's ready for a

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successful launch we also make sure we

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take care of the test and any other

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thing that's responsible for making sure

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safe flight well just so that we can

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make sure everybody knows exactly what

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we're talking about we have a model of

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the shuttle back here can you show us

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exactly where the reusable solid rocket

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motor is sure

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this is referred to as the solid rocket

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booster or srb the motor is is a portion

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in here that has the propellant and

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actually gives the thrust of the motor

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it burns for 123 seconds into flight and

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it provides about 80 percent of the

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thrust up into space

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we have actually seen on a previous

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edition of focus on marshall we got to

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see one of the subscale tests of the

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motor down the east test area but we

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don't do full scale testing down there

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why is that well one of the reasons is

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you have to have a wide open place to

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make sure that it's safe and that you

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can have the right structure to do it

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what we do is we utilize marshall here

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to take care of the subsystem skill

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testing it allows us to take a design or

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an obsolescence issue work it on a scale

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small version of it then we can

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fine-tune it and then put it on a

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full-scale motor and then we take the

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full-scale motors and test them in utah

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because there we have wide open range in

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the desert and it makes it very safe and

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it has the facility to do it so what

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kind of challenges though do you face

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trying to to run a test based out of

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marshall but way up in utah well it's

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always location but we have great

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location great communication with our

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folks we have atk our contractor who's a

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critical part of this and making it

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happen we also get a lot of support from

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the engineering director at snma and a

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lot of support from marshall space

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flight center that helps us with our

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flight readiness reviews and then a lot

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of us travel out to utah for the actual

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test i understand there was some unique

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aspects to your most recent test in utah

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yes one of the unique things we did is

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we tested at night this was the second

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time we've ever tested at night and one

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of the benefits we got from it was the

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ability to look at our asset imagery

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from our cameras there are cameras that

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are mounted on the solid rocket booster

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and what this test did it gave us an

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ability to look at what we would see at

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a night launch and to get the best angle

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best definition to be able to see what

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we can best see on a shuttle launch as

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far as with ascent