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The design, development, and integration of the Shuttle on-board Primary Avionics Software System (PASS) have posed unique requirements associated with few other aerospace or commercial software systems. These challenges stem from its size and complexity, its criticality to completion of the Space Shuttle mission, and from the fact that it is only one of many components of an overwhelmingly complex state-of-the-art Space Transportation System (STS).
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