Location

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms

Start Date

26-4-1995 2:00 PM

End Date

26-4-1995 5:00 PM

Description

The International Space Station Alpha (ISSA) is a low Earth orbiting research facility to conduct microgravity, life science, earth observations, astrophysics, new technology, and commercial experiments. This paper provides an overview of the ISSA payload accommodations supporting these research disciplines.

The ISSA supports payloads in a pressurized and unpressurized environment. A shirt sleeve working condition is provided to payloads in the United States Laboratory, the Centrifuge Module, the Japanese Experiment Module, the European Columbus Orbiting Facility, and three Russian Research Modules. Payloads are physically and functionally integrated within the ISSA via the International Standard Payload Rack, standard drawers, and Shuttle common middeck lockers. External payloads are provided accommodations on the U.S. integrated truss, the Japanese Exposed Facility, and the Russian Science Power Platform.

The types of resources and systems that support these payloads include 120 Vdc power, low, medium, and high rate data management systems, video distribution, low and moderate thermal water loops, vacuum access for exhausting contaminants, and various gases. The ISSA also supports ground control of payloads and reception of research data via a world-wide uplink and downlink communications system.

Comments

The Evolution of ISSA

Session Chairman: William Bates, Chief of Staff for Space Station Program Office, NASA, Johnson Space Center

Session Organizer: Terri Cardone

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Paper Session II-A - International Space Station Alpha Payload Accommodations

Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms

The International Space Station Alpha (ISSA) is a low Earth orbiting research facility to conduct microgravity, life science, earth observations, astrophysics, new technology, and commercial experiments. This paper provides an overview of the ISSA payload accommodations supporting these research disciplines.

The ISSA supports payloads in a pressurized and unpressurized environment. A shirt sleeve working condition is provided to payloads in the United States Laboratory, the Centrifuge Module, the Japanese Experiment Module, the European Columbus Orbiting Facility, and three Russian Research Modules. Payloads are physically and functionally integrated within the ISSA via the International Standard Payload Rack, standard drawers, and Shuttle common middeck lockers. External payloads are provided accommodations on the U.S. integrated truss, the Japanese Exposed Facility, and the Russian Science Power Platform.

The types of resources and systems that support these payloads include 120 Vdc power, low, medium, and high rate data management systems, video distribution, low and moderate thermal water loops, vacuum access for exhausting contaminants, and various gases. The ISSA also supports ground control of payloads and reception of research data via a world-wide uplink and downlink communications system.

 

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