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Building Transatlantic Partnerships in Space Exploration The MPCV-SM StudyFollowing the approval of the ESA ISS Exploitation Declaration for the ISS lifetime at the ESA Council Meeting in March 2011, ESA decided to partially offset the European obligations deriving from the extension of the ISS Programme until end 2020 with different means than ATVs, following the ATV-5 mission foreseen in mid 2014. The envisioned approach is based on a barter element(s) that would generate cost avoidance on the NASA side. NASA and ESA considered a number of Barter options, and concluded that the provision by ESA of the Service Module for the NASA Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) was the barter with the most interest. A joint ESA - NASA working group was established to assess the feasibility of Europe developing this Module based on ATV heritage. The working group was supported by European and US industry namely Astrium, TAS-I and Lockheed-Martin. This paper gives an overview of the results of the on-going study as well as its perspective utilisation for the global space exploration endeavour.
Document ID
20120012885
Acquisition Source
Glenn Research Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Wilde Detlef
(Astrium G.m.b.H. Bremen, Germany)
Schubert, Kathy
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Grantier, Julie
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Deloo, Philippe
(European Space Agency. European Space Research and Technology Center, ESTEC Noordwijk, Netherlands)
Price, Larry
(Lockheed Martin Corp United States)
Fenoglio, Franco
(Thales Alenia Space France)
Chavy, Siegfrid
(Astrium France)
Date Acquired
August 26, 2013
Publication Date
May 22, 2012
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Report/Patent Number
E18271
Meeting Information
Meeting: Global Space Exploration Conference
Location: Washington, DC
Country: United States
Start Date: May 22, 2012
End Date: May 24, 2012
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 747797.06.11.99.03
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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