Mission areas analyzed for input to the baseline mission model include: (1) commercial materials processing, including representative missions for producing metallurgical, chemical and biological products; (2) commercial Earth observation, represented by a typical carry-on mission amenable to commercialization; (3) solar terrestrial and resource observations including missions in geoscience and scientific land observation; (4) global environment, including representative missions in meteorology, climatology, ocean science, and atmospheric science; (5) materials science, including missions for measuring material properties, studying chemical reactions and utilizing the high vacuum-pumping capacity of space; and (6) life sciences with experiments in biomedicine and animal and plant biology.
Space Station Needs, Attributes and Architectural Options. Volume 2, Book 1, Part 2, Task 1: Mission Requirements
1983
239 pages
Report
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English
Manned Spacecraft , Astronautics , Mission planning , Payloads , Space missions , Space stations , Spaceborne experiments , User requirements , Earth observations (From space) , Environmental monitoring , Life sciences , Market research , Materials , Processing , Solar terrestrial interactions , Space commercialization