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 COLUMBUS laboratory APM (Attached Pressurized Module) provides for the partial and complete exchange of payload facilities on-orbit. This laboratory is planned to be launched with initial payload installed and will remain in orbit until the end of its operational life. The initial payload will be upgraded in resupply missions until the full on-orbit payload capability is reached. Periodically servicing will be performed as well as on-orbit exchange of complete or partial payload facilities in resupply missions.
Paper Session III-A - Rack Level Test Facility- The Columbus APM Payload Verification Tool
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
The COLUMBUS laboratory APM (Attached Pressurized Module) provides for the partial and complete exchange of payload facilities on-orbit. This laboratory is planned to be launched with initial payload installed and will remain in orbit until the end of its operational life. The initial payload will be upgraded in resupply missions until the full on-orbit payload capability is reached. Periodically servicing will be performed as well as on-orbit exchange of complete or partial payload facilities in resupply missions.
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