Space Station microgravity and materials processing facility A national laboratory dedicated to U.S. interestsThe Microgravity and Materials Processing Facility (MMPF) of the Space Station is examined. The MMPF is designed to accommodate individual experiments and associated hardware and is to be housed in the Manufacturing and Technology Laboratory Module. The objectives of the microgravity and materials processing study and the user, experiment/equipment, MMPF system requirements, and programmatics and planning development tasks of the study are described. Consideration is given to the acceleration environment, on-orbit sample preparation and analysis, mission-time-line analyses, and payload complement trades. Diagrams of the MMPF are presented.
Document ID
19870022772
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Atkins, H. L. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Pevey, E. R. (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Mookherji, T. (Teledyne Brown Engineering Huntsville, AL, United States)