Location
Radisson Resort at the Port, Jamaica Room
Start Date
4-5-2000 2:00 PM
Description
The International Space Station requires three Nodes for the completion of the configuration. The first of these Nodes, designed and manufactured under National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) contract, has already been launched successfully and is waiting for the assembly of further elements.
As a little background, Nodes 2 & 3 were agreed to be designed and constructed in Europe in a Barter agreement between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) with the overall management assigned to the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Alenia Spazio (ALS) was awarded the overall prime contractor role. Necessitated by geographical return reasons within ESA programs, subsystem activities were given outside Italy even though this did not adhere to the classical role of prime contractor functions in an optimized standard program. With OHB-System winning the two major sub-contractor roles for the Secondary Structure and the Harness, we are now responsible for designing, manufacturing, and testing these subsystems for Nodes 2 & 3 in an international team approach.
Paper Session III-B - European Node 2 and 3 Space Station Contributions
Radisson Resort at the Port, Jamaica Room
The International Space Station requires three Nodes for the completion of the configuration. The first of these Nodes, designed and manufactured under National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) contract, has already been launched successfully and is waiting for the assembly of further elements.
As a little background, Nodes 2 & 3 were agreed to be designed and constructed in Europe in a Barter agreement between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) with the overall management assigned to the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Alenia Spazio (ALS) was awarded the overall prime contractor role. Necessitated by geographical return reasons within ESA programs, subsystem activities were given outside Italy even though this did not adhere to the classical role of prime contractor functions in an optimized standard program. With OHB-System winning the two major sub-contractor roles for the Secondary Structure and the Harness, we are now responsible for designing, manufacturing, and testing these subsystems for Nodes 2 & 3 in an international team approach.
