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TVOne OneRack provides mission critical reliability for United Launch Alliance

TVOne’s OneRack mounting system has taken on one of its most mission critical applications to date after being installed at America’s United Launch Alliance sites, which provide rocket launch services for NASA spacecraft.

One of the most recent high-profile take-offs was NASA’s Perseverance mission to Mars on United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. This event attracted international attention, especially as the Perseverance rover landed safely on the Red Planet in February this year to hunt for microbial life.

At Perseverance’s launch in July 2020, United Launch Alliance’s two sites at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base had more than thirty of TVOne’s OneRack units installed and in play. Indeed, all of ULA’s recent launches for NASA have used OneRack as part of its technology systems and will continue to do so.

“At the launch site, ULA has a large number of cameras - about sixty - to monitor every angle before, during and after the rocket blasts off”, says TVOne’s Global Product Manager, Mark Armon. “This results in a lot of data and power consumption - as each feed is a circuit - which is when OneRack comes into play in the ULA control rooms. OneRack enables users to mount randomly sized, externally powered devices from any manufacturer into slide-in modules that can be installed quickly and cleanly and serviced easily. This means that if anything goes wrong with one device, that chassis can be removed in isolation and fixed. All mounted devices can also be cooled by OneRack directly.”

“OneRack helps us organize our rack full of IP camera components”, says Mark Tillman from United Launch Alliance. “These components were originally installed at each camera location out in the hot and humid environment. Using a different design concept, the TVOne chassis allowed us to move all the equipment into air-conditioned communications rooms. With the sliding trays, we also have easy access to each of our camera’s components.”

United Launch Alliance are currently the world’s biggest OneRack customer, adding systems on a regular basis as they build infrastructure for further rocket launches. ULA purchased all of its OneRack systems through Anixter. The ULA team opted for the 6RU version of OneRack, which can hold up to sixteen modules with up to two voltage selectors each.

(Photos: TVOne/United Launch Alliance)

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