The Spacelab is a flexible laboratory system, featuring an array of interchangeable components -- pressurized manned laboratories, unpressurized platforms, and related support systems -- that can be assembled in several different configurations of pallets and pressurized modules depending on the specific scientific requirements of the mission. The first two flights of Spacelab are designed to verify the flexibility and utility of all the elements of the Spacelab inventory. Spacelab Mission 2 will constitute the first flight of the pallet-only configuration of Spacelab. The major objective of Mission 2 is the verification of the performance of Space-lab systems and subsystems in this operating mode. The system performance will be verified using a complement of verification flight instrumentation and by operating a complement of scientific instrumentation to obtain scientific data. This paper describes the evolution of Spacelab Mission 2 including a discussion of the verification requirements and instrumentation, the experiments requirements and instrumentation, the major mission peculiar equipment to integrate the payload, and the general mission planning for the flight. Finally, the current status of the mission will be discussed with emphasis on hardware and software development, and on major activities yet to be completed.
Spacelab Mission 2 Pallet-Only Mode Verification Flight
NASA-ESA Spacelab Systems and Programs ; 1981 ; Washington,D.C.,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 0284
1982-02-01
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Spacelab Mission 2 pallet-only mode verification flight
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