Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1990 2:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1990 5:00 PM
Description
The Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program (STP), a tri-service activity under the executive management of the Air Force, is chartered and funded to provide spaceflight opportunities for DOD research experiments and agencies that are not authorized their own means of spaceflight. In its 25 years of existence, the program has flown over 170 experiments on over 50 missions. Experiment sponsors include the Navy, Army, Air Force, DARPA, DNA, NSA, NASA, and other government agencies.
In the mid 1960s, high level management in the DOD recognized the need for an on-orbit research and test capability for the timely, cost effective development of technology. At that time, basic research of the space environment was being pursued by the Air Force Office of Aerospace Research (OAR), although spaceflight support, (selecting high-quality payloads and providing prompt spaceflights), to developmental and proof-of-concept payloads were not available. It was recognized that this capability had to be a low cost, rapidly responsive, and flexible program.
Paper Session II-B - The Department of Defense Space Test Program
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Enterprise Rooms
The Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program (STP), a tri-service activity under the executive management of the Air Force, is chartered and funded to provide spaceflight opportunities for DOD research experiments and agencies that are not authorized their own means of spaceflight. In its 25 years of existence, the program has flown over 170 experiments on over 50 missions. Experiment sponsors include the Navy, Army, Air Force, DARPA, DNA, NSA, NASA, and other government agencies.
In the mid 1960s, high level management in the DOD recognized the need for an on-orbit research and test capability for the timely, cost effective development of technology. At that time, basic research of the space environment was being pursued by the Air Force Office of Aerospace Research (OAR), although spaceflight support, (selecting high-quality payloads and providing prompt spaceflights), to developmental and proof-of-concept payloads were not available. It was recognized that this capability had to be a low cost, rapidly responsive, and flexible program.
Comments
Technology Payloads and Robotics
Session Chairman: Jon Pyle, Project Manager, Flight Projects Division, Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology, NASA Headquarters
Session Organizer: Keith Chandler, Boeing Aerospace Operations, FL