BOEING SELECTS WPDS GOLD SOFTWARE TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.The Boeing Co. has selected WPDS WPDS Wireless Packet Data Service GOLD software for its International Space Station (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ) contract. Space Station sites that will run GOLD include Boeing facilities at the Johnson Space Center in Houston; Kennedy Space Center Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) U.S. launch site for manned space missions. [U.S. Hist.: WB, So:562] See : Astronautics , Fla.; Marshall Space Flight Center The George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), the original home of NASA, is a lead center for propulsion, Space Shuttle propulsion, Shuttle external fuel tank, crew training and payloads, International Space Station (ISS) design and construction, for computers, networks, and in Huntsville, Ala.; and Boeing Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. , Calif. GOLD will be used to integrate and manage a number of critical ISS assembly and support functions, including material, work-in-process, configuration management, scheduled maintenance, work packaging and recording, asset management, federal supply system interface, and reporting. A GOLD implementation site survey began at Kennedy Space Center on July 19, 1999. According to Terry Lubenow, WPDS vice president, "We are thrilled that Boeing chose GOLD to support its central role in making ISS a reality." Boeing Houston project manager for GOLD, John Leonard, remarked that, "We saw GOLD as the ideal software solution based on its power, flexibility and proven performance in many other programs throughout Boeing." With a "space footprint" the size of almost two football fields, the International Space Station is the largest international space venture ever undertaken, and a historic joint effort of 16 countries. When fully assembled in 2004, it will house a crew of seven -- working in 46,000 cubic feet of pressured volume spread across six laboratories, two habitation modules, and two logistics modules. The first two station modules, the Russian-launched Zarya and U.S.-launched Unity, were assembled in orbit in late 1998. The Boeing Company is NASA's prime contractor to design, develop, manufacture and assemble the International Space Station. WPDS develops, licenses and supports the GOLD family of products, value-added software for fleet and equipment product-support maintenance, supply and repair. GOLD is widely used by the United States and foreign military organizations, defense contractors and commercial enterprises. WPDS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bowthorpe plc, (London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. :BWTH BWTH But What the Hay .L) a U.K.-based, international technology group focused on the design, development, manufacture and marketing of specialist electronic products. |
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