Start Date
4-1976 8:00 AM
Description
As part of a continuing study to develop and demonstrate low-cost techniques for management and operation of Spacelab, the CV-990 airborne laboratory at the NASA Ames Research Center was used to conduct in-depth, real-time Spacelab simulations. This ASSESS (Airborne Science/Spacelab Experiments System Simulation) project involved an extensive cooperative effort of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). An international "Spacelab" operation was completed in which a scientific payload was selected to conduct studies in upper atmospheric physics and infrared astronomy with principal investigators from France, the Netherlands, England, and several groups in the United States. Two experiment operators from Europe and two from the United States were selected to live aboard the aircraft along with a Mission Manager for a 6-day period and operate the experiments in behalf of the principal scientists. Extensive data were obtained in overall management of a complex international payload; experiment preparation, testing, and integration; training for proxy operators in space; data handling; multi-experimenter use of common experimenter facilities; multiexperiment operation by experiment operators; selection criteria for Spacelab experiment operators; and schedule requirements to prepare for such a Spacelab mission.
Airborne Simulation of Shuttle/ Spacelab Management And Operation
As part of a continuing study to develop and demonstrate low-cost techniques for management and operation of Spacelab, the CV-990 airborne laboratory at the NASA Ames Research Center was used to conduct in-depth, real-time Spacelab simulations. This ASSESS (Airborne Science/Spacelab Experiments System Simulation) project involved an extensive cooperative effort of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). An international "Spacelab" operation was completed in which a scientific payload was selected to conduct studies in upper atmospheric physics and infrared astronomy with principal investigators from France, the Netherlands, England, and several groups in the United States. Two experiment operators from Europe and two from the United States were selected to live aboard the aircraft along with a Mission Manager for a 6-day period and operate the experiments in behalf of the principal scientists. Extensive data were obtained in overall management of a complex international payload; experiment preparation, testing, and integration; training for proxy operators in space; data handling; multi-experimenter use of common experimenter facilities; multiexperiment operation by experiment operators; selection criteria for Spacelab experiment operators; and schedule requirements to prepare for such a Spacelab mission.
Comments
Man In Space Flight Operations
Session Chairman: Don Mulholland, Consultant, Saratoga, California
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