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Shuttle — Selected Missions and Payloads

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ASTRO-SPAS is the generic name of a reusable platform, designed and built by DASA (formerly MBB, Munich, Germany) under DLR contract, which is used as a self-contained and autonomous free-flyer service structure for special Shuttle payloads with free-flyer requirements for short-duration missions (up to the length of a Shuttle mission). The SPAS structure consists of low-weight, high-stiffness carbon fiber tubes with titanium nodes. Standardized mounting panels are provided for subsystem and payload equipment. The platform is deployed/retrieved by the Shuttle’s robot arm RMS (Remote Manipulator System) for a free-flyer mission which may entail separations from the Shuttle up to 100 km. As a service structure, SPAS is particularly suited as a test bed for new science instrumentation and technology demonstrations in space.1362)

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Kramer, H.J. (2002). Shuttle — Selected Missions and Payloads. In: Observation of the Earth and Its Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56294-5_11

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