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Pyrotechnics Working Group FY 03 Activities Update. Regor Saulsberry NASA WSTF Howard Julien WSTF Honeywell. Annual Meeting. July 03 at MSFC, with attendees from nearly all Centers HQ, DFRC, GRC, GSFC, JPL, JSC, KSC, LaRC, MSFC, WFF, and WSTF Elected PWG Officers for one-year term
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Pyrotechnics Working GroupFY 03 Activities Update Regor Saulsberry NASA WSTF Howard Julien WSTF Honeywell
Annual Meeting • July 03 at MSFC, with attendees from nearly all Centers • HQ, DFRC, GRC, GSFC, JPL, JSC, KSC, LaRC, MSFC, WFF, and WSTF • Elected PWG Officers for one-year term • Chairman (Regor Saulsberry, WSTF) • Vice Chairman (Steve Schneider, GRC) • Reviewed and finalizing PWG charter • Distributed for review the Pyrovalve Application and Performance Handbook Regor Saulsberry/Howard Julien
Needs and Issues Identified • Finalize charter and issue letter to Centers from HQ requesting that Centers designate one PWG member and one alternate • Determine funding source from HQ for PWG activities • Review of documents, including Pyrovalve Handbook • Identify and report pryotechnics issues at each Center for a “State of the Agency” report requested by HQ Regor Saulsberry/Howard Julien
Needs and Issues Identified (cont.) • Gather existing information and establish a subcommittee to develop a pyrotechnics safety training course • Develop a web site at which “lessons learned” can be entered by PWG members and searched on by all Centers • Action items Regor Saulsberry/Howard Julien
Action Item Status • Six of twenty action items completed • Three of remaining open items concern training • Establish course objective • Condense VHS Series of Larry Bement’s course • Submit pyrotechnics training materials to WSTF • “State of the Agency” annual report remains an open item • Expand Channels of Communication with existing committees (DOD, DOE, ESA, etc.) Regor Saulsberry/Howard Julien
Action Item Status (cont.) • Three of remaining open items concern handbook • JSC to write section on laser initiators and firing systems • PWG review of Handbook (3 sets of comments received to date) • Estimate for completion of functional margin testing • Three of remaining open items concern NASA working group processes, including center assignments Regor Saulsberry/Howard Julien
Action Item Status (cont.) • Three of remaining open action items concern distribution of technical information • ISO 14304, Explosive devices and Systems (next revision) • Send testing information on JPL welding to WSTF • Recommend approach to PWG web page Regor Saulsberry/Howard Julien