Considerable opportunity exists to substantially improve the systems, subsystems, components, etc., which are included in the spacecraft bus - the non-payload portion of the spacecraft. There are a broad range of technology advancements which can be brought to bear to reduce mass and cost and increase lifetime and reliability. Over the past several years, the NASA Lewis Research Center has been working with industry, other NASA centers and the DOD to define a new initiative that would focus on these issues, while at the same time forming new industry/government relationships that can lead to substantial benefits for both parties. The steps followed to date, the challenges being faced by the industry, and the progress toward establishing a new NASA initiative to identify the technologies required to build spacecraft of the 21st century and to implement the technology development/validation programs necessary to achieve them are described in this paper.
Spacecraft 2000 - the challenge of the future
Raumfahrt 2000 - Herausforderung der Zukunft
1986
4 Seiten, 8 Bilder
Conference paper
English
Spacecraft 2000: The Challenge of the Future
NTIS | 1987
|Spacecraft 2000 - The challenge of the future
NTRS | 1986
|Spacecraft 2000: The challenge of the future
NTRS | 1987
|NTRS | 1986
|NTRS | 1986