Orbital Antares - Manual (Page 59)

Antares
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OSP-3
User’s Guide
Section 6.0
– Mission Integration
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6.3.4.6. Mission ICD Verification Documentation
Orbital conducts a rigorous verification program to ensure all requirements on both sides of the launch
vehicle-to-payload interface have been successfully fulfilled. As part of the ICD, Orbital includes a verifi-
cation matrix that indicates how each ICD requirement will be verified (e.g., test, analysis, demonstration,
etc.). As part of the verification process, Orbital will provide the customer with a form to complete for
each interface requirement that is the responsibility of the payload to meet. The form clearly identifies the
documentation to be provided as proof of verification. Likewise, Orbital will ensure that the customer is
provided with similar data for all interfaces that are the responsibility of launch vehicle to verify.
6.3.4.7. Safety Documentation
For each Antares mission Orbital acts as the interface with Range Safety. To fulfill this critical role, Orbit-
al requires payload safety information from the customer. For launches from any of the U.S. Ranges, the
Flight Facility Range Safety Manual and AFSPCMAN 91-710 provide detailed Range Safety regulations
to which the payload must comply. Orbital will provide the customer with coordination and guidance re-
garding applicable safety requirements. These applicable safety requirements must be incorporated into
the earliest stages of spacecraft design as launch Ranges discourage the use of waivers.
To obtain approval to use the launch site facilities, specific payload safety data must be prepared by the
customer and submitted to Orbital. This information includes a description of each payload hazardous
system and evidence of compliance with safety requirements for each system. Major categories of ha-
zardous systems include ordnance devices, radioactive materials, propellants, pressurized systems, toxic
materials, cryogenics, and RF radiation. Drawings, schematics, and assembly and handling procedures,
including proof test data for all lifting equipment, as well as any other information that will aid in assessing
the respective systems and procedures should be included. In addition, all payload hazardous proce-
dures, procedures relating to hazardous systems, and any procedures relating to lifting operations or bat-
tery operations should be prepared for safety review submittal. Orbital provides this information to the
appropriate Range Safety office for approval.
6.3.5. Orbital Produced Documentation, Data, and Analyses
Mission documentation produced by Orbital is detailed in the following paragraphs.
6.3.5.1. Mission ICD
The launch vehicle-to-payload mission ICD details all of the mission-unique requirements agreed upon by
Orbital and the customer. The mission ICD is a critical document used to ensure compatibility of all
launch vehicle and payload interfaces, as well as defining all mission-specific and mission-unique re-
quirements. The mission ICD contains the payload description, electrical and mechanical interfaces, en-
vironmental requirements, targeting parameters, mission-peculiar vehicle requirement description, and
unique GSE and facilities required. As a critical part of this document, Orbital provides a comprehensive
matrix that lists all ICD requirements and the method in which these requirements are verified, as well as
who is responsible.
The mission ICD, as well as the Payload MICD and EICD, are configuration controlled documents that are
approved by Orbital and the customer. Once released, changes to these documents are formally issued
and approved by both parties. The ICDs are reviewed in detail as part of the MIWG process.