USA engineers have an excellent history of tool development to facilitate capability requirements. USA has continually provided solutions to difficult challenges that have expanded capabilities and knowledge of flight performance.

The tools developed by USA include

• Shuttle Viewer, which employs a Three-Dimensional (3-D) computer model to generate views of the space vehicle as seen from different cameras and trajectories.
• Analysis software that automates the analysis process that combines 3-D modeling views and actual mission film/imagery overlay to define geometries.
• An Image Viewing Library (IVY) which contains defined functionality routines such as: cut, copy, paste, rotate, scale, and color manipulation, Fast Fourier Transfer (FFT), filtering techniques, and image enhancement.
• A movie tracking tool which tracks pixels across movie sequences, and stabilization tools which remove jitter and allow content view centering.
• Image warping software tools which take an image viewed from one perspective and warp it to match other vantage points.
• Database interaction and reporting software.