AbstractThe Columbus programme includes Europe's contribution to the international Space Station. The status of the present activities is described in this paper. It includes a brief description of the candidate hardware elements - attached pressurised module, man-tended free-flyer, and polar platform. Also, an enhanced version of the baseline Eureca which is being considered as an Earth-based co-orbiter is described. Attendant programmatic data are discussed using Europe's long-term aim of eventual autonomy as a back-cloth.The role of the potential users of Space Station elements is stressed in the paper and plans for ensuring good use of the new capabilities available are presented.
Columbus, present programme status
Acta Astronautica ; 15 , 9 ; 601-614
1987-01-01
14 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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