The practicality of employing a combination of automated and extravehicular activity forms of servicing in-orbit was demonstrated with the STS 41-C Solar Maximum Repair Mission. This shows that modular Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs) designed for servicing can be readily accommodated. Successful replacement of an experiment ORU, not designed for replacement, was performed following extensive preparations. In a laboratory, spacecraft ORUs were replaced using a completely preplanned automated approach. This was later done using a completely unstructured teleoperations mode including the complicated exchange of the instrument ORU. As a result of this effort and work on powered tools, an approach for combining these techniques is underway to produce a flight support system servicing aid to increase the STS astronauts' effective in-orbit servicing capability by several fold.


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    Title :

    In-Orbit and Laboratory Exchange of ORU (Orbital Replacement Units) Designed/Not Designed for Servicing


    Contributors:
    R. Davis (author)

    Publication date :

    1987


    Size :

    4 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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