Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Enterprise Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1996 1:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1996 4:00 PM
Description
This paper presents an overview of programs in the Advanced Systems and Technology Office at Marshall Space Flight Center designed to move NASA into the next century of space exploration. These programs include work in evolved and new booster and upper stage technology. In addition to near term applications, effort continues in advanced concepts focused on the propulsion needs in the decades ahead. In support of Space Station and beyond, tethers will play a growing role with their abilities to move payloads, generate power, and support research in the upper atmosphere. Our knowledge of the Earth will be enhanced with missions to study the winds and lightning, and Earth observation resources will be put to greater use in reducing the damage and losses from disasters. New missions will continue our study of the Sun as well as the heavens with new observations never before possible. This paper summarizes the future transportation and payload missions being studied at MSFC for NASA.
Paper Session III-B - An Overview of Future NASA Programs
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Enterprise Rooms
This paper presents an overview of programs in the Advanced Systems and Technology Office at Marshall Space Flight Center designed to move NASA into the next century of space exploration. These programs include work in evolved and new booster and upper stage technology. In addition to near term applications, effort continues in advanced concepts focused on the propulsion needs in the decades ahead. In support of Space Station and beyond, tethers will play a growing role with their abilities to move payloads, generate power, and support research in the upper atmosphere. Our knowledge of the Earth will be enhanced with missions to study the winds and lightning, and Earth observation resources will be put to greater use in reducing the damage and losses from disasters. New missions will continue our study of the Sun as well as the heavens with new observations never before possible. This paper summarizes the future transportation and payload missions being studied at MSFC for NASA.
Comments
Payload Development and Deployment
Session Chairman: Christopher A. Waln, USAF, Director of Developmental Planning for Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center
Session Organizer: Christ Cook