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4-1980 8:00 AM

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This paper describes a means for flying existing Sounding Rocket payloads aboard the Space Shuttle by developing small experiment carriers which become detached from the orbiter and are later retrieved and reused. An effort is underway at the Goddard Space Flight Center to develop such a carrier which would be flown as an Experiment of Opportunity Payload (EOP). The activity is viewed as a feasibility test, and success will encourage the construction of similar packages for additional sounding rocket experiments, for eventual evolution of pointed sounding rocket experiments into the Space Shuttle.

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Development of an Experiment of Opportunity Test Payload for the Space Transportation System

This paper describes a means for flying existing Sounding Rocket payloads aboard the Space Shuttle by developing small experiment carriers which become detached from the orbiter and are later retrieved and reused. An effort is underway at the Goddard Space Flight Center to develop such a carrier which would be flown as an Experiment of Opportunity Payload (EOP). The activity is viewed as a feasibility test, and success will encourage the construction of similar packages for additional sounding rocket experiments, for eventual evolution of pointed sounding rocket experiments into the Space Shuttle.

 

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