With the advent of the NASA Space Transportation System, regular flights of a large manned spacecraft, the Space Shuttle Orbiter, became a reality. From the earliest mission containing space science instruments as a payload on the third flight of the Orbiter (STS-3), it became apparent that the disturbance caused by the interaction of this orbiting system with the low Earth orbit (LEO) environment resulted in adverse conditions for the performance of scientific observations of the Orbiter natural environment and for certain high sensitivity optical observations. The interaction of the Space Shuttle Orbiter system can be divided into two parts, the structure-environment interaction, and the outgas cloud-environment interaction. These interaction are briefly discussed.


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    Title :

    Large Manned Systems/Environment Interactions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)


    Contributors:
    W. J. Raitt (author)

    Publication date :

    1986


    Size :

    1 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English