Spacelab development status
Abstract
At the beginning of 1979 the Spacelab Engineering Model is fully assembled according to planned test configurations and is operating and demonstrating its functional capability. Delivery of Flight Unit Hardware to the ERNO Integration Center has begun and preparations for FU integration and test activities are set up accordingly. This paper reviews the current Spacelab development status with attention given to the following areas: implementation of requirements, model philosophy, Spacelab systems/subsystems, industrial organization, qualification program, and status of integration and test activities.
- Publication:
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In: Space - The best is yet to come; Proceedings of the Sixteenth Space Congress
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979sbyc.proc....3B
- Keywords:
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- Project Management;
- Research And Development;
- Spacecraft Design;
- Spacelab;
- Avionics;
- Computer Systems Programs;
- Environmental Control;
- Qualifications;
- Spacecraft Environments;
- Spacecraft Modules;
- Specifications;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles