Major facilities that could support significant microgravity research and applications activity are discussed. The ground-based facilities include drop towers, aircraft flying parabolic trajectories, and sounding rockets. Facilities that are intrinsically tied to the Space Shuttle range from Get-Away-Special canisters to Spacelab long modules. There are also orbital facilities which include recoverable capsules launched on expendable launch vehicles, free-flying spacecraft, and space stations. Some of these existing, planned, and proposed facilities are non-U.S. in origin, but potentially available to U.S. investigators. In addition, some are governmentally developed and operated whereas others are planned to be privately developed and/or operated. Tables are provided to show the facility, developer, duration, estimated gravity level, crew interaction, flight frequency, year available, power to payload, payload volume, and maximum payload mass. The potential of direct and indirect benefits of manufacturing in space are presented.


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    Titel :

    Report of the Committee on a Commercially Developed Space Facility


    Beteiligte:
    J. F. Shea (Autor:in) / H. G. Stever (Autor:in) / W. B. Cutter (Autor:in) / W. H. Demisch (Autor:in) / D. J. Fink (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1989


    Format / Umfang :

    107 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Report of the Committee on a Commercially Developed Space Facility

    National Research Council, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, USA | TIBKAT | 1989


    Report of the committee on a commercially developed space facility

    Shea, Joseph F. / Stever, H. Guyford / Cutter, W. Bowman, III et al. | NTRS | 1989