Start Date
4-1980 8:00 AM
Description
The Spacelab mission project D1 is the most ambitious and most important effort in the present German STS utilization program. Primarily intended for "microgravity research" in the fields of material sciences and life sciences,the D1 project serves to prove the STS capabilities, and to develop and introduce cost-decreasing principles/ methods and tools in exploitation of space by means of Shuttle and Spacelab. Based on the needs of the user community, the payload has been defined following the "payload element approach" . Main technical problems result from the marginal use of STS resources. For D1 it is intented to have the total payload integrated in Germany and to control payload operations during the mission in Germany as well.
Germany contributes remarkably to the Spacelab 1 payload, and -in preparing and supporting the D1 Mission-performes projects like TEXUS and MAUS.
German Near Term Spacelab-Utilization - Activities with Special Emphasis on the Mission D-1 (Technology Lab)
The Spacelab mission project D1 is the most ambitious and most important effort in the present German STS utilization program. Primarily intended for "microgravity research" in the fields of material sciences and life sciences,the D1 project serves to prove the STS capabilities, and to develop and introduce cost-decreasing principles/ methods and tools in exploitation of space by means of Shuttle and Spacelab. Based on the needs of the user community, the payload has been defined following the "payload element approach" . Main technical problems result from the marginal use of STS resources. For D1 it is intented to have the total payload integrated in Germany and to control payload operations during the mission in Germany as well.
Germany contributes remarkably to the Spacelab 1 payload, and -in preparing and supporting the D1 Mission-performes projects like TEXUS and MAUS.
Comments
No other information or file available for this session.