Acceptance-, Qualification- and Delivery Procedures for AUSTROMIR ’91 Hardware

Abstract

Concerning the Austro-Soviet contract in general the following five units of each instrument had to be developed, tested and delivered:

• a mock-up unit for mechanical integration tests in a full-size model of the space station MIR the dimensions of which had to correspond with those of the flight unit,

• a technological unit for qualification and integration tests in an electrical equivalent to the space station which had to correspond precisely with the flight unit concerning mechanical construction and electrical input and output parameters,

• a model used for cosmonaut training equivalent to the flight unit concerning design and handling,

• a flight unit to be used on board the space station MIR during the Austro-Soviet mission,

• a spare flight unit to be used on board the space station MIR in case of severe troubles with the flight unit.