Rideshare reduces launch costs while enabling access to space for the fast-growing small satellite community. Combinations of spacecraft are launched as secondary and tertiary payloads or as co-manifested primary payloads. Payload adapters designed for the launch environment are used to package the spacecraft on the launch vehicle. This paper reviews a subset of the adapter hardware with flight heritage and some new adapters in development.


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    Title :

    Space access for small satellites on rideshare missions with ESPA and ESPA-derived payload adapters


    Contributors:
    Maly, J R (author) / Evert, M E (author) / Shepard, J T (author) / Smith, C A (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2011-03-01


    Size :

    3431977 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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