The CONCAP IV-02 payload planned for flight in April 1994 on STS-59 is sponsored by the NASA Office of Advanced Concepts and Technology (OACT). CONCAP IV-02 is a commercial development of space, small, Shuttle cargo bay payload developed by the Consortium for Materials Development in Space, a NASA Center for the Commercial Development of Space based at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Mission management for this payload is provided by the Goddard Space Flight Center Shuttle Small Payloads Project on behalf of OAC I . The CONCAP IV flights use the weightlessness of space flight to investigate the feasibility of growing non-linear optical (NLO) crystals, and explore the commercial potential of such crystals. Suitable materials with NLO properties are considered essential to the development of optical computers by the optoelectronics-photonics industry. For this reason, this work in NLO materials has significant commercial implications. The enclosed Prelaunch Mission Operation Report contains a brief description of the planned CONCAP IV-02 flight activity. Questions may be directed to the OACT Flight Programs Division.
Consortium for Materials Development in Space Complex Autonomous Payload IV-02 Activities on STS-59
1994
18 pages
Report
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Englisch