A development history, program management and performance capability assessment account is presented for the NASA Solar Maximum Repair Mission conducted by the Space Shuttle Orbiter, which incorporated extravehicular activity as an integral part of servicing efforts. It was determined soon after assessment of the Solar Maximum Mission satellite's hardware malfunction that such a repair mission could be undertaken by the Orbiter at substantially lower cost than the construction and launch of a comparable new spacecraft. A photographic account is given of the various stages of the Shuttle Orbiter-based repair procedure.
The new space transportation system and the Solar Maximum Repair Mission
1984-01-01
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Keine Angabe
Englisch
AIAA | 1983
|AIAA | 1983
|SPIE | 1984
|NTRS | 1983
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