Space Shuttle Orbiter

Space Shuttle (NASA) Orbiter

During FY 1994 Atlantis completed its Orbiter Maintenance Down Period (OMDP) in the Orbiter Facility in Palmdale, California.

Rosetta Orbiter Spectrometer for Ion and Neutral Analysis

The Robot Arm was installed in the Shuttle Orbiter Cargo Bay and operated by crews in the Aft Flight Deck of the Shuttle Orbiter using hand controllers.

ASI provided the following payloads and subsystems for both the Rosetta orbiter and the Philae lander

The main organization concerned with the orbiter was the S.A. Lavochkin Scientific Production Association (Lavochkin Association), while the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences was involved in the development of the scientific instrumentation of the orbiter and landers.

As the year ended, the orbiter Columbia was being prepared for delivery to Palmdale for an OMDP.

Survey personnel also helped plan for Surveyor orbiter and lander missions projected to take place between 1998 and 2005.

The orbiter has experienced a significant number of impacts, with on average one window being replaced in every flight.

The JAXA technical and scientific experts are currently involved in the ongoing Hayabusa asteroid mission and the Lunar A Moon orbiter.

This flight orientation was adopted to protect the crew and sensitive orbiter systems from damage caused by collisions with small debris.

The most protected orientation is with the payload bay toward Earth and the aft of the orbiter in the forward direction.

This flight orientation was adopted to protect the crew and sensitive orbiter systems from damage caused by collisions with small debris.

Whenever possible, EVAs are conducted in such a way as to ensure that the EVA crew is shielded from debris by the orbiter.

Whenever possible, EVAs are conducted in such a way as to ensure that the EVA crew is shielded from debris by the orbiter.

There are currently five Mars orbiters and two Mars rovers at work, but only one lunar orbiter and one lunar lander are at work.

In the case of the space shuttle, the orbiter is oriented during flight with the tail pointed in the direction of the velocity vector.

Research on basic technologies for spaceplanes, with the focus on aerodynamics, advanced composite structures, flight control, propulsion systems, manned space flight and orbiter manoeuvreing engines

In the case of the Space Shuttle, the orbiter is often oriented during flight, with the tail pointed in the direction of the velocity vector.

(a) Research on basic technologies for spaceplanes, with the focus on aerodynamics, advanced composite structures, flight control, propulsion systems, manned space flight and orbiter manoeuvring engines

The launching of the Mars 96 mission was scheduled for November, with an orbiter equipped for about 20 scientific experiments and with two ground stations and two penetrators.

Analyses were underway at the end of the year to ensure the compatibility of design modifications to the external tank, main engine, solid rocket boosters, and the orbiter itself.

France contributed to carrying out about ten scientific experiments and provided the system on board the orbiter to relay the data from the stations to be set down on the surface of Mars.

19. The Ariane 5 orbiter will also be rendered passive at the end of its mission through the opening of two pyrotechnic valves fitted on the pressurization circuit, connected to zero torque nozzles.

Three spacecraft, MUSES B for the space VLBI (1996), Lunar A for the Moon Penetrator Mission (1997) and PLANET B for the Mars Orbiter (1998), have already been approved for launching by M V.

An integrated work control system, still under development, has already streamlined and automated work control functions related to more than 10,000 major tasks performed in preparing an orbiter apos s 22 major systems for flight.

By means of multi spacecraft analysis based on data from VEGA 1 2, PHOBOS 1 2, Pioneer Venus Orbiter and IMP 8 a special magnetic field structure known as quot magnetic cloud quot could be identified.

(a) In the case of a single launch, the orbiter must be rendered passive, which means that residual propellants, including the performance reserve and the propellants used in the attitude control system, must have been emptied and the tanks depressurized

The Space Control Center (SCC) of the United States Space Command runs a computer program evaluating the next 36 hours of the Shuttle flight to determine possible trackable conjunctions of space objects within a radius of 100 kilometres around the orbiter.

France provided the system installed aboard the orbiter, which relayed the data obtained from smaller stations placed on the surface of Mars, together with a second relay placed on the American satellite Mars Global Surveyor launched at the beginning of November.

It is a sobering fact that of a total of 51 Mars missions sent out by five countries, 30 ended badly. Among India s Asian rivals, neither Japan, which launched a Mars orbiter in 2003, nor China, which followed suit in 2011, was able to complete its mission successfully.

In accordance with the initial industrial study, which is now being reviewed and updated at the ESA Concurrent Design Facility, the Don Quijote mission would be divided into several dedicated mission elements the camera, the infrared spectrometer, the penetrators surface elements and the seismic sources carried on the orbiter, Sancho.

The Subcommittee noted missions planned for future launch, including Mars 96, Planet B, Mars Surveyor, Orbiter and Pathfinder, for investigation of Mars Lunar Prospector for lunar exploration Cassini Huygens, for investigation of Saturn and its moons and the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR), Stardust and Rosetta missions to asteroids and comets.

An orbiter would use radar tomography (that is, the imaging of the interior of a solid body using ground penetrating radar) to probe the target object interior, to study its structure (for example, homogeneous, porous, fractured or simply a loose aggregate of separate boulders) and to assess the seriousness of the threat

If an identified object is predicted to pass within the warning box near the orbiter (25 kilometres along the orbit and 5 kilometres both radial and out of orbital plane), the Space Surveillance Network is requested to make additional observations and use them to compute a more accurate orbit of that object.

The first M V flight is scheduled for 1997 Five spacecraft, MUSES B for the space VLBI (1997), Lunar A for the Moon Penetrator Mission (1997) and PLANET B for the Mars Orbiter (1998), ASTRAY E for X ray astronomy (1999) and MUSES C for asteroid sample return (2001) have already been approved for launching by M V.

It was proposed to launch a spacecraft or orbiter destined for Mars and to place it in orbit around the planet, whence two small landers and two penetrators would be jettisoned onto the surface of the planet for the purpose of continuing investigations of the physical and chemical properties of its atmosphere, surface and subsurface layer.

Six spacecraft, MUSES B for the space VLBI (1997), Lunar A for the Moon Penetrator Mission (1997), and PLANET B for the Mars Orbiter (1998), ASTRO E for X ray astronomy (1999) and MUSES C for asteroid sample return (2001), and ASTRO F for infrared astronomy (2002) have already been approved for launching by M V.

NEW DELHI The news that the Mars orbiter spacecraft Mangalyaan, launched by India on November 5, has left the Earth s orbit, traversed the moon, and is on course for its ultimate destination, 400 million kilometers (249 million miles) away, brought early holiday cheer to Indians. Space missions have become a matter of pride for India, which is already one of the top countries in terms of rocket and satellite technology.

One of India s more astute young commentators, Sreeram Chaulia, captures this heady exuberance well Every milestone in advanced rocket science, he writes, is a shot in the arm for national self confidence, showing that India is headed for global leadership. When the chips are down, or if there is a national calamity, memories of the Mars orbiter blazing a trail in the sky will sustain the faith that the future belongs to India.