To achieve truly low cost system design with direct evolution for inorbit shuttle resupply, a modular building block approach has been adopted. The heart of the modular building block concept lies in the ability to use a common set of nonoptimized subsystems in such a way that a wide variety of missions can be flown with no detrimental impact on performance. By standardizing the mechanical configurations and electrical interfaces of the subsystem modules, and by designing each of them to be structurally and thermally independent entities, it is possible to cluster these building blocks or modules about an instrument system so as to adequately perform the mission without the need for subsystem redevelopments for each mission. This system concept offers the following capabilities: (1) the ability to launch and orbit the observatory by either the Delta, the Titan, or the space shuttle. (2) the ability to completely reconfigure the spacecraft subsystems for 9different launch vehicles, and (3) the ability to perform in-orbit resupply and/or emergency retrieval of the observatory. (Author)


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    Title :

    Appendices for the Space Applications Program, 1974


    Publication date :

    1974


    Size :

    186 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English