Insights Into Contamination Control For The Shuttle Payload Integration Facility (SPIF) At The Eastern Launch Site (ELS)

Nancy J. Pugel

doi:10.1117/12.932008

19 February 1982 Insights Into Contamination Control For The Shuttle Payload Integration Facility (SPIF) At The Eastern Launch Site (ELS)

Nancy J. Pugel

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Proceedings Volume 0287, Shuttle Optical Environment; (1982) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932008
Event: 1981 Technical Symposium East, 1981, Washington, D.C., United States

Abstract

The Shuttle Payload Integration Facility (SPIF) is a payload processing facility at the Eastern Launch Site (ELS), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) which has been designed to accommodate assembly, test, and checkout operations for a number of Shuttle payloads, many of which are contamination sensitive. In general, the SPIF was designed to meet class 100,000, per Fed. Std. 209B (Reference 1), cleanliness requirements and operate as a class 100,000 clean area. However, due to the expansiveness of the building (which includes several airlocks, a transfer aisle, and integration cells), the variety of hardware to be processed through the facility (payloads, upper states, and support equipment), and the variety of operations to be performed for these hardware, many different contamination control methods must be carefully integrated and implemented to maintain an overall clean environment. In instances where the operation being performed is not generally compatible with the clean environment, uniaue and innovative contamination control methods must be developed with respect to ease of implementation as well as effectiveness of contamination control.

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Nancy J. Pugel "Insights Into Contamination Control For The Shuttle Payload Integration Facility (SPIF) At The Eastern Launch Site (ELS)", Proc. SPIE 0287, Shuttle Optical Environment, (19 February 1982); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.932008

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