Newpoint Technologies has announced that its Spiral 2 Delivery to Honeywell of Compass Software for NASA's Space Network successfully completed acceptance testing in April and the Delivery team received a NASA Group Achievement Award in May.
This award is presented to a group of government employees or a group comprised of government and non-government personnel for outstanding accomplishment through the coordination of many individual efforts that have contributed substantially to a NASA mission.
Newpoint's Compass Software provides NASA with remote management capability for its Guam terminal. A redundant pair of Compass servers interface with the ground segment enabling operators at New Mexico's WSC (White Sands Complex) to monitor status, view alarms, and control equipment in Guam.
Compass' replication features ensure delivery and efficient data transfer through the limited bandwidth between WSC and Guam.
"Newpoint was able to provide to Honeywell a COTS solution that required very little modification to the core product to meet the requirements of managing equipment located in Guam. In doing so, we were able to significantly reduce the risk, cost, and schedule associated with delivering the Compass M and C system.
"By selecting key products from the Integral Systems family, namely modems from RT Logic, the Doppler Compensation Module from Integral Systems, and Compass Software from Newpoint, Honeywell had a single organization that shared its goals and was responsible for delivering a seamlessly integrated solution to NASA," stated Wally Martland, Newpoint's President.
In addition to managing Guam's standard RF equipment, Compass Software also interfaces into the wideband and narrowband modems provided by RT Logic, and the mission control and status software provided by General Dynamics, which in turn uses a Doppler Compensation Module programming library from Integral Systems to perform Doppler compensation calculations.
