Location

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms

Start Date

29-4-1993 1:00 PM

End Date

29-4-1993 4:00 PM

Description

The advent of Space Station Freedom (SSF) will provide a permanent laboratory in space with unparalleled opportunities to perform basic and applied scientific, technological, and commercial research. SSF will have substantially more pressurized volume, greater utilities such as power, cooling and data management, and more prolonged exposure to the space environment than any previous or existing space platform. SSF will accommodate payload hardware both within pressurized laboratory modules and on external structures. Utilization of payload accommodations will begin early in the deployment of SSF elements and will be enhanced by a regular series of Utilization Flights. To ensure that a high quality microgravity environment for payload operations is available, a Vibroacoustic Control Plan has been implemented. To further enhance research capabilities, the SSF Program has recently implemented the EXPRESS Payload Project which is designed to Expedite the Processing of Experiments to Space Station. The SSF Program has also begun formal Payload Integration Agreement development for the Centrifuge Facility and the Space Station Furnace Facility, two of the premier facility class research projects.

Comments

Space Station

Session Chairman: Robert W. Moorehead, Deputy Director, Space Station Freedom Program and Operations, NASA

Session Organizer: Gert Adkins, McDonnell Douglas Space Systems, Kennedy Space Center

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Apr 29th, 1:00 PM Apr 29th, 4:00 PM

Paper Session III-A - Space Station Freedom Utilization Initiatives

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms

The advent of Space Station Freedom (SSF) will provide a permanent laboratory in space with unparalleled opportunities to perform basic and applied scientific, technological, and commercial research. SSF will have substantially more pressurized volume, greater utilities such as power, cooling and data management, and more prolonged exposure to the space environment than any previous or existing space platform. SSF will accommodate payload hardware both within pressurized laboratory modules and on external structures. Utilization of payload accommodations will begin early in the deployment of SSF elements and will be enhanced by a regular series of Utilization Flights. To ensure that a high quality microgravity environment for payload operations is available, a Vibroacoustic Control Plan has been implemented. To further enhance research capabilities, the SSF Program has recently implemented the EXPRESS Payload Project which is designed to Expedite the Processing of Experiments to Space Station. The SSF Program has also begun formal Payload Integration Agreement development for the Centrifuge Facility and the Space Station Furnace Facility, two of the premier facility class research projects.

 

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