New Flight Opportunities Outside the Russian ISS Segment: Universal Working Platform URM-D

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Jan 2002

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IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,

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As an important step to start the commercial utilization of the International Space Station, direct access by means of an external payload platform on the Russian segment is provided. Kayser-Threde has negotiated an agreement with the Russian Space Agency Rosaviakosmos and its Russian joint venture partner RSC Energia to jointly build a multi-purpose platform. During the first stage a total of three payloads can be mounted to the platform. This exciting experimental possibility will be available as early as at the end of 2003. The first industrial contract has been signed with the German Aerospace Center DLR at the end of November. Technology experiments involving a state-of-the-art light weight robot arm will be performed. The robot can be controlled directly from earth (i.e. from DLR's control center in Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich). Apart from robot technology demonstration a telepresence mode is foreseen mimicking in-orbit repair actions. Public outreach experiments (e.g. earth observation) are planned, too, using cameras mounted on top of the robot. The multi-purpose platform is characterized as follows:

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