ISO 14625:1999, Space systems -- Ground support equipment for use at launch, landing, or retrieval sites-- General requirements

This International Standard specifies the general characteristics, performance, design, test, safety, reliability, maintainability and quality requirements for ground support equipment (GSE) and systems intended for use at launch, landing, or retrieval-site installations or other locations that are the responsibility of the launch, landing and retrieval site. This International Standard does not specify how to design GSE, but establishes the minimum requirements to provide simple, robust, safe, reliable, maintainable and cost-effective GSE.This International Standard is applicable to the design of non-flight hardware and software used to support the operations of transporting, receiving, handling, assembly, inspection, test, checkout, service, launch and recovery of space vehicles and payloads at the launch, landing, or retrieval sites. As such, the requirements of this International Standard are optional for hardware used only at the manufacturing, development, or test sites prior to arrival at the launch, landing, or retrieval sites or at the mission control site. However, if such GSE is temporarily used at a launch, landing, or retrieval site, for whatever reason, this GSE shall comply with all the safety-related requirements of this International Standard, as a minimum.