Servicing of User Payload Equipment in the Space Station Pressurized Environment 860973
One of the major contributions which the permanently manned Space Station will make to the user community is the ability to extend the useful life of hardware through various forms of servicing. Servicing support facilities will include both unpressurized and pressurized work areas. The unpressurized area will permit astronauts operating in an Extravehicular Activity (EVA) mode or aided by robotics to accomplish Orbital Replacement Unit (ORU) and instrument changeout, test and verification, assembly, refueling, and limited repair. The pressurized facilities will provide the capability for astronauts operating in an Intravehicular Activity (IVA) mode to service OBUs and instruments brought into a module through an airlock, and also service user payload equipment located within the pressurized modules.
Citation: Levy, J., Whitman, R., LaVigna, T., and Oberright, J., "Servicing of User Payload Equipment in the Space Station Pressurized Environment," SAE Technical Paper 860973, 1986, https://doi.org/10.4271/860973. Download Citation
Author(s):
Joel Levy, Ruth Whitman, Thomas A. LaVigna, John E. Oberright
Affiliated:
ORI, Inc., Goddard Space Flight Center
Pages: 8
Event:
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Aerospace Environmental Systems-Proceedings of the Sixteenth Ices Conference-P-177, SAE 1986 Transactions - Aerospace-V95-6
Related Topics:
Spacecraft
Assembling
Tools and equipment
Refueling
Hardware
Robotics
SAE MOBILUS
Subscribers can view annotate, and download all of SAE's content.
Learn More »