The Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) is a large, low-cost, reusable, unmanned, free-flying spacecraft which accommodates technology, science, and applications experiments for long-term exposure to the space environment. The LDEF was designed and built by the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) for NASA's Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology. Specifically, the LDEF was designed to transport experiments into space via the Space Shuttle, to free fly in Earth orbit for an extended period, and be retrieved on a later Space Shuttle flight allowing experiments to be returned to Earth for postflight analysis in the laboratory. The LDEF with a full complement of experiments was placed in Earth orbit in April 1984 by Challenger and retrieved from orbit in January 1990 by Columbia. A general overview of the LDEF, its mission, systems, experiments, and operations is presented. Excerpts from various NASA documents are extensively used.


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    Titel :

    Long Duration Exposure Facility: A General Overview


    Beteiligte:

    Kongress:

    1st Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) Post-Retrieval Symposium ; 1991 ; Kissimmee, FL, US



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1992-01-01


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Long Duration Exposure Facility: A General Overview

    R. L. Oneal / E. B. Lightner | NTIS | 1992


    Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) space environments overview

    Kinard, William H. / Martin, Glenna D. | NTRS | 1992




    Long Duration Exposure Facility surface temperatures

    HUGHES, P. C. / TENNYSON, R. C. | AIAA | 1992