Large Space Telescope - Orbital crew EV maintenance operationsThe paper shows that orbital EV maintenance by the crew has a tremendous impact on several areas of the program, including operations, Shuttle interfaces, support equipment rendezvous and berthing, checkout and verification, levels of servicing achievable, logistics and spares and scientific instruments in order to permit changeout and possible future refurbishment. To achieve on-orbit EV maintenance, such challenges as designing for suited-astronaut access to all subsystem equipment elements, minimization for contamination, handling of extremely sensitive instruments, development of translation techniques, and use of existing GFE and hardware must be faced early in the preliminary design and operations analysis phases. All studies to date indicate that on-orbit EV manned maintenance of the LST (Large Space Telescope) is not only feasible but can be designed to be readily within the capability of the EV functioning astronaut. Both 1-g and neutral buoyancy man-in-the-loop simulations further support this point.
Document ID
19760029844
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Fisher, H. T. (Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Inc. Sunnyvale, Calif., United States)
Date Acquired
August 8, 2013
Publication Date
August 1, 1975
Subject Category
Space Transportation
Report/Patent Number
AAS PAPER 75-183
Meeting Information
Meeting: Meeting on Space Shuttle Missions of the 80''s