Telemetry and the integrated avionics approach.

The unique problems encountered in the integrated approach to aircraft and spacecraft avionics system designs are discussed with the emphasis on recent advances in telemetry as a factor facilitating the integration. A listing of subsystems planned for integration on the Space Shuttle vehicle is given, covering auxiliary pumping and propellant, crew controls and displays, computation, communications and radar, electric power, guidance, navigation and control, air-bearing engines, main engines, reaction control, and structural/mechanical elements. Considerations are given for the multiplexed data bus design applicable to integrated avionics.