Integrated Avionics

Honeywell’s integrated avionics include systems integration, multifunction control and display units, data processing systems, adaptive antenna systems, human factors engineering and navigation systems. By combining the functions of an advanced fail-passive autopilot, flight director and display processor into a single line-replaceable unit, significant weight, size and reliability advantages are realized.

Multiplexer/Demultiplexer (MDM)

Honeywell plays a significant role in providing the on-board communications and integrated systems for data and vehicle management for NASA’s fleet of Space Shuttles and for the International Space Station. The mission-critical system provides on-orbit communications for data and vehicle management.

Display Technology

The Atlantis Space Shuttle is the first of four Orbiters to be suited with the Multifunction Electronic Display Subsystem (MEDS) glass cockpit.

On the International Space Station, two MDUs will allow astronauts to view graphics data and live camera video, the information they need to position the robotic arm extending from the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM).

Vehicle Health Management

As an industry leader in providing the ability to manage aircraft and complex industrial factories worldwide, Honeywell is taking its corporate technology in control-loop management and adapting it to space for the 21st Century space vehicle.

Honeywell’s cutting-edge Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM) system captures and integrates the intelligence and expertise of engineers who design and build systems and subsystems for spacecraft. Not only will IVHM house a comprehensive database, it also will function as a “brain” that can analyze total-vehicle data, diagnose problems, recommend corrective actions, and verify return-to-health data. It’s like having rocket scientists on hand around the clock to ensure spacecraft stay healthy and achieve mission success.