Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1990 2:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1990 5:00 PM
Description
The COLUMBUS Attached Laboratory will form an integral part of the Space Station Freedom and the COLUMBUS Free Flying Laboratory will use the Space Station Freedom as a servicing base.
The COLUMBUS Attached Laboratory will be launched by NSTS in the late Space Station Freedom assembly period. This laboratory is presently planned to be launched without the complete payload, due to launch mass restrictions, requiring additional outfitting missions utilizing NASA Pressurized Logistics Carriers. The COLUMBUS Free Flyer will be launched by the ARIANE 5 and is configured to sustain nominal mission operations by HERMES visits between servicing events at the Space Station Freedom. For this purpose the NASA infrastructure will also be used for Free Flyer's upload and download processing.
This paper concentrates on the ground processing aspects for the initial delivery of the COLUMBUS Attached Laboratory, payload outfitting launches, and the periodic resupply launches for both the Attached Laboratory and the Free Flyer. It describes the acceptance approach of flight hardware at the European facilities and the concepts for shipment to and essential processing at the launch site.
Primarily addressed is the intended use of the Space Station Processing Facility for these COLUMBUS needs. A summary is presented in a scenario covering upload and download processing for the COLUMBUS elements at KSC.
Paper Session II-A - Columbus Elements Processing Needs At KSC
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
The COLUMBUS Attached Laboratory will form an integral part of the Space Station Freedom and the COLUMBUS Free Flying Laboratory will use the Space Station Freedom as a servicing base.
The COLUMBUS Attached Laboratory will be launched by NSTS in the late Space Station Freedom assembly period. This laboratory is presently planned to be launched without the complete payload, due to launch mass restrictions, requiring additional outfitting missions utilizing NASA Pressurized Logistics Carriers. The COLUMBUS Free Flyer will be launched by the ARIANE 5 and is configured to sustain nominal mission operations by HERMES visits between servicing events at the Space Station Freedom. For this purpose the NASA infrastructure will also be used for Free Flyer's upload and download processing.
This paper concentrates on the ground processing aspects for the initial delivery of the COLUMBUS Attached Laboratory, payload outfitting launches, and the periodic resupply launches for both the Attached Laboratory and the Free Flyer. It describes the acceptance approach of flight hardware at the European facilities and the concepts for shipment to and essential processing at the launch site.
Primarily addressed is the intended use of the Space Station Processing Facility for these COLUMBUS needs. A summary is presented in a scenario covering upload and download processing for the COLUMBUS elements at KSC.
Comments
Space Station
Session Chairman: John Cox, Director, Program Utilization and Operations for the Space Station Program, NASA
Session Organizer: Nancy Lorenz, McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company, Florida