The Tethered Satellite System (TSS) will operate from the Space Shuttle as an earth-orbiting facility that will permit tethered deployment of numerous types of payloads to altitudes both above and below that of the Shuttle. The TSS has evolved from initial studies, beginning in the sixties, to a cooperative development program that is currently being carried out by NASA and the National Space Plan of Italy's CNR. This cooperative agreement between NASA and CNR includes system development and science instrumentation for the first mission, and planning for two additional missions. This paper will (1) discuss predevelopment activities, (2) review the development approach and management relationships between NASA and CNR, (3) describe the current hardware/software configuration and functional interfaces, (4) discuss the mission profile and flight operations planning, and (5) overview science experiment status/plans for the first TSS mission.


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    Title :

    Tethered satellite system


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Aerospace century XXI: Space missions and policy ; 1986 ; Boulder, CO, United States


    Publication date :

    1987-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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