A review is presented of the secondary or piggyback flight opportunities that are presently available along with an overview of NASA's secondary payload plans, policies and requirements. When there is excess capacity on either the Space Shuttle or an expendable launch vehicle (ELV), a logical step is to carry a secondary payload to provide a relatively low-cost launch for small satellites. NASA has already flown more than a dozen piggyback payloads on the Delta rocket. The Small Expendable Deployment system experiment is currently planned as the first of small space experiments launched as a piggyback on an ELV. Some details are provided on various secondary payload flight opportunities aboard the Space Shuttle including the Get-Away Special Canister Program, the complex autonomous payload, the Hitchhiker Program, and the middeck lockers concept. Also described are several secondary payload possibilities utilizing ELVs.


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    Title :

    NASA secondary payload plans, policies and requirements


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    Conference:

    Annual AIAA/Utah State University Conference on Small Satellites ; 1990 ; Logan, UT, United States


    Publication date :

    1990-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English







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