Start Date
4-1980 8:00 AM
Description
The Shuttle/Spacelab mode of orbital operations will provide the user community significant new capabilities to accomplish their missions in space. As these capabilities are utilized, it is readily recognized that, if some of the available resources were augmented, considerable extra benefits to the user could be provided. This paper reports on the planning efforts in progress which are examining the evolution of the present Spacelab mode of operation into an optimal utilization of the newly developing augmentation systems.
The initial Spacelab activities are projected into the second half of the 1980 decade when these new systems will become available. Descriptions of each of the systems considered; the Power Extension Package, The Power System, and the Science and Applications Space Platforms, are provided. The projected model is then analyzed, showing how each system would be utilized to provide benefits to the users' missions. A summary of these results along with a general analysis of the evolutionary program is then presented.
Space Platforms: An Evolution from Space;ab Payload Operations
The Shuttle/Spacelab mode of orbital operations will provide the user community significant new capabilities to accomplish their missions in space. As these capabilities are utilized, it is readily recognized that, if some of the available resources were augmented, considerable extra benefits to the user could be provided. This paper reports on the planning efforts in progress which are examining the evolution of the present Spacelab mode of operation into an optimal utilization of the newly developing augmentation systems.
The initial Spacelab activities are projected into the second half of the 1980 decade when these new systems will become available. Descriptions of each of the systems considered; the Power Extension Package, The Power System, and the Science and Applications Space Platforms, are provided. The projected model is then analyzed, showing how each system would be utilized to provide benefits to the users' missions. A summary of these results along with a general analysis of the evolutionary program is then presented.
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