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Commerce Lab - An enabling facility and test bed for commercial flight opportunitiesCommerce Lab is conceived as an adjunct to the National Space Transportation System (NSTS) by providing a focal point for commercial missions which could utilize existing NSTS carrier and resource capabilities for on-orbit experimentation in the microgravity sciences. In this context, the Commerce Lab provides an enabling facility and test bed for commercial flight opportunities. Commerce Lab program activities to date have focused on mission planning for private sector involvement in the space program to facilitate the commercial exploitation of the microgravity environment for materials processing research and development. It is expected that Commerce Lab will provide a logical transition between currently planned NSTS missions and future microgravity science and commercial R&D missions centered around the Space Station. The present study identifies candidate Commerce Lab flight experiments and their development status and projects a mission traffic model that can be used in commercial mission planning.
Document ID
19870042184
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Robertson, Jack
(Wyle Laboratories El Segundo, CA, United States)
Atkins, Harry L.
(Wyle Labs., Inc. El Segundo, CA, United States)
Williams, John R.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1986
Subject Category
Astronautics (General)
Accession Number
87A29458
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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