The Space Congress® Proceedings 1983 (20th) Space: The Next Twenty Years
Apr 1st, 8:00 AM
Space Transportation System Cargo Abort and Recovery Operations
Dwight J. Easterly Staff Engineer
L. E. Henshaw Senior Specialist Engineer, Boeing Aerospace Company
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Dr. Dwight J. Easterly L. Ernest Henshaw Staff Engineer Senior Specialist Engineer TRW-TFOD Boeing Aerospace Company P.O. Box 903 P.O. Cape Box 21185 Canaveral, FL 32920 Kennedy Space Center, FL 32815 Tel: 305-853-9392 Tel : 305-867-4574
ABSTRACT RETURN TO LAUNCH SITE fRTLS] The Space Transportation System era has Should an emergency occur on- ascent,, produced a new operational consideration making orbit with unique insertion Impossible, the problems: payload/cargo vehicle continues up to 400,000 feet recovery following an aborted mission. (approx. 122,000 This paper addresses: m) altitude and pitches types of aborts, around to reverse the thrust direction • landing sites, classes of payloads, The horizontal recovery component of velocity Is operations, and cargo impacts. zeroed out and then reversed In direction, while the craft descends to 230,000 Space Transportation System planning has feet concentrated (approx. 70,000 m) altitude 300 on the Orbiter; however, the nautical miles (approx. 550' tail dotflirange. emphasis is now being focused on payload/ The external cargo concerns. tank Is separated and! the Extensive contingency Orbiter is 'flown through a complex and planning has to be accomplished many challenging months prior glide path to a manual landing to launch. Recovery on the shuttle landing facility at Kennedy equipment and personnel have to be iden Space Center. tified for all situations. Each payload presents different recovery requirements TRANSATLANTIC ABORT LANDING ITIILI which must be satisfied. Recovery of flight hardware, data, experiments, and If an abort is the safing called, durlrq ascent and and deservicing of hazardous orbit insertion is Impossible, the Orbiter components must all be provided for. continues Payload in a ballistic trajectory. A contractors must be concerned with manual landing is made at the transat contamination, thermal effects, and lantic abort landing site. delayed physical access. ABORT TO ORBIT (AID) LANDING/FLIGHT ABORT OPERATIONS If an abort Is called after a transat When the Orbiter returns to earth after lantic abort landing completing a mission, Is no longer there are a variety feasible, but the capability to of post-flight activities which involve reach a circular the payload contractor. orbit wttl an altftmfe. In addition to greater than 105 nautical milts (apprau supporting and participating in post- 190 km), then flight operations circular orbit Is adiltmdU for planned landings, After this basically safe orMt is the payload contractor must plan and be reached, the mission prepared to participate may bt contlniMdU in post-flight using the Orbital Nauntmftrlno %s IIB-71 landing site, abort-once-around landing ABORT ONCE AROUND (ADA) site or contingency landing site, depending on mission requirements. If an abort is called when a return to launch site maneuver or a transatlantic A transatlantic abort landing site is abort landing is no longer feasible and designated for each mission. This is to circular orbit at 105 nautical miles provide for a safe landing area in the (approx. 190 km) cannot be achieved, but event of an Orbiter main engine failure orbital velocity is still achievable, the and when an abort-to-orbit or abort-once- Orbiter may use the OMS-2 burn to initiate around is not possible. Dakar- Yoff Inter reentry rather than to raise perigee. national Airport at Dakar, Senegal is Landing would then occur about 90 minutes planned for a transatlantic abort landing after liftoff. site for most low orbit inclination angles. Rota Naval Air Station at Rota, ON-ORBIT CONTINGENCIES Spain is designated as the transatlantic abort landing site for high orbit incli Situations may occur during the mission which would prevent awaiting a landing nation angles. opportunity at the primary landing site Contingency landing sites are identified or secondary landing site. During more for each mission to provide landing than eleven hours per day, the Orbiter opportunities when the primary landing cannot make an abort landing in the conti site or secondary landing sites are not nental United States due to cross-range available. The currently identified limitations of 815 miles (approx. 1300 contingency landing sites are: km) and darkness. A problem developing during this time frame could dictate Rota Naval Air Station, Rota, Spain landing at a contingency landing site. Dakar- Yoff International Airport, Dakar, TYPES OF LANDING SITES Senegal There are several types of landing sites designated for each mission. Edwards Air Kadena AFB, Okinawa, Japan Force Base, California was designated as Hickam AFB, Honolulu International the primary landing site during the orbital flight test phase and the shuttle Airport, Hawaii landing facility at Kennedy Space Center CLS PAYLOAD POLICY was the secondary landing site. Early operational flights wilt continue to use The current NASA contingency landing site Edwards AFB as the primary landing site, policy for payloads provides that payloads with the Kennedy Space Center as the will be removed from the Orbiter and secondary landing site. Current planning transported in their shipping container to has most landings at Edwards AFB through the primary launch site for return to the at least Mission 12. When the Space user. NASA will provide for payload Transportation System becomes totally ground support equipment and personnel operational, all flights will land at the transport to and from the contingency Kennedy Space Center, utilizing it as a landing site within the transportation primary landing site. The Western Launch provisions for the Space Transportation Site at Vandenberg Air Force Base,. .Cali System on a space available basis. After fornia is slated to become an additional payload removal from the Orbiter and prior Primary Landing Site, in 'the late 1980Vs. to transport, all user required payload unique operations (data removal, safing, When the Kennedy Space Center'becomes the modifications for transport, etc.), and primary landing site, then Edwards AFB personnel to conduct them are the respon win be a secondary landing site. The White Sands Space Harbor, New Mexico is sibility of the user. designated as-a backup landing site. Dye SHUTTLE CARRIER AIRCRAFT FERRY to adverse climatic conditions that exist' ' at Edwards AFB during certain times of the year, the lakebed there may not be Many pay! oads are constrai ned from bei ng suitable for a Shuttle -landing site* At ferried back to the launch site in the such time, the White Sands'.Space Harbor . orbiter payload bay by weight and center can be designated as a landing site for a of gravity (e.g.) limitations. The particular mission. White Sands Space current Orbiter ferry weight is limited to Harbor can be designated as a primary 192,000 Ibs. (approx. 87,000 kg). IIB-72 That weight limitation was increased by a access stands will be installed and pay- waiver for the Continental United States load removal operations will be started. to 220,000 Ibs. (approx, 100,000 kg) The payload elements will be lifted out of through the STS-6 mission. Possible the cargo bay, using facility hoists and extension of that waiver is under ana standard slings and the hoisting strong- lysis. The ferry weight from contingency back. The payloads will be positioned in landing sites in Europe and Africa is the payload canister or in their own constrained to approx. 192,000 Ibs. transporters and returned to the Operation (approx. 87,000 kg). The ferry weight A Checkout Building, Satellite Assembly from the Pacific contingency landing sites Building or Payload Processing Facility is further constrained to 154,000 Ibs. for further processing. Airborne support (approx. 70,000 kg). This requires not equipment, installed in the cargo bay or only removal of the payload but removal of in the aft flight deck, will also be Orbiter main engines, tires, landing gear removed and returned to the payload and other components as well. In contractor for disposition. addition, the Orbiter Z axis (vertical) and X axis (longitudinal) center of ABORTED MISSION LANDINGS gravity location must be within a limited envelope, as shown in Figure 1. Aborted mission landings may occur at Kennedy Space Center immediately after PAYLOAD CLASSES launch (return to launch site abort) or during later passes in the mission. This Payloads have been classified in different is the preferred landing site for cargos forms such as automated free-flyers, as complete payload facilities and planetary, sortie, horizontally installed, equipment are available. Post landing vertically installed, etc.; however, the operations at Kennedy Space Center after most common method of classification is an abort are very similar to standard attached payload or deployable payload. Orbiter post-flight activities, except Attached payloads are those which are that operations may occur at an accele launched and returned with the Shuttle. rated pace. In the case of an aborted Examples are Space!ab and the MBB SPAS landing, all tasks will be based on the structure. Deployable payloads are those following priorities: which are removed/ejected from the payload bay and operate at some distance from the a. Flight Crew and Ground Crew Safety Shuttle. All payloads with propulsive stages are deployable. Other examples of b. Orbiter Safety deployable payloads are the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) and Gamma Ray c. Payload Safety Observatory (GRO). Payload operations will not begin until PAYLOAD RECOVERY OPERATIONS all crew safety and Orbiter safing operations are completed, the Orbiter has PLANNED LANDINGS been towed to the Orbiter Processing Facility and verification of safe Some of the tasks required for planned conditions in the payload bay has landings and aborted flights are iden completed. The payload contractor will tified. The operations and activities to verify that the payload is to be accomplished for a generic payload (power off, ordnance safed and no toxic program, with a planned landing at the leaks). 'The payload will be primary landing site, are described in the Orbiter and transported to a facility the following paragraph: for deservldng of propel 1 ants and ordnance, if needed* The will The Orbiter will land at the shuttle then be prepared for to this landing facility at Kennedy Space Center. factory. Figure 2: is a Preliminary securing and crew egress will flow sequence and schedule for and be accomplished. If the payload requires return to prlwry site* It purge, then a unit will be connected on the payload tasks starting the runway that will provide continuous from the Orbiter bay purge to payload bay until switched over preparation for return to the factory % to facility purge. The Orbiter will be towed a short distance to the Orbiter Processing Facility where safing and deservicing operations will be completed. The payload bay doors will be opened, IIB-73 SECONDARY LANDING SITES A special train is required to transport all of the support equipment that is When the Kennedy Space Center becomes the currently in place at Edwards AFB. Cargo primary landing site, then Edwards AFB operations will be similar to those at a will be a secondary landing site. A contingency landing site. At White Sands, convoy crew for the Orbiter may not be all cargo operations will take place provided unless a 72 hour notification of outdoors, as there is no hangar available. intent to land at Edwards AFB is provided. Payload contractors must be prepared for If a landing occurs with less than 72 contamination, due to the gypsum and winds hours notice, then the flight crew will which are prevalent. There are no power down the Orbiter and local equipment provisions for cargo protection from and personnel will be used to close the climatic conditions. hatch and tow the Orbiter off the runway. No cooling, purge or power will be immedi CONTINGENCY LANDING SITES ately available unless prior arrangements have been made for those requirements. No Shuttle missions are programmed for landing at contingency landing site The baseline payload plan of operation is locations. The decision to terminate a for the down cargo to remain in the mission at a contingency landing site payload bay for ferry to the Kennedy Space is made in flight, in response to a Center. The cargo would then be removed specific mission-related situation. It is in a normal manner at the Orbiter assumed that the Orbiter lands in Processing Facility. However, various condition for ferry and permission from requirements may dictate that the cargo be foreign governments, to initiate recovery removed in the field. If the combined operations, will be available after weight of the Orbiter and the cargo landing. exceeds the capacity of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, then all or part of the The contingency landing sites are pre cargo will have to be removed to meet the selected airfields that can provide for weight limitations. Certain hazardous crew and passenger survival, with no cargo elements will require removal. Orbiter vehicle unique support specifi Other cargo elements may have requirements cally implemented. Orbiter post-landing which will dictate removal such as: heat processing at contingency landing site sensitive film or data; life science locations consist of the minimum specimens, animals, biological samples, operations to render the vehicle safe and etc. A typical operational flow is shown prepare it for return to the Kennedy Space in Figure 3. The Orbiter is safed, Center. deserviced, and towed into the Shuttle hangar at the Dryden Flight Research Turnaround time from Orbiter landing to Facility at Edwards AFB, California. It return to the Kennedy Space Center is is jacked, leveled, and the payload bay several weeks time as shown in Figure 4. doors are opened. The payload is removed, This is a success oriented schedule and deserviced, and prepared for shipment. No does not allow for operational problems or cleanliness level is provided at the adverse weather. No deservicing equipment hangar. is prepositioned at the site and no payload bay purge, cooling, or power is The activation of White Sands Space Harbor available for several days. The high is similar to that for a contingency altitude return ferry flight requires landing site. All the ground support complete Orbiter hypergol deservicing, equipment and personnel must be trans including freeze proofing. ported to the site. This facility was used as a landing site for the STS-3 The primary objectives of initial contin mission when the lakebed at Edwards AFB gency landing site post-landing operations was too wet for landing. If it is deter are Orbiter flight crew safety and identi mined that White Sands Space Harbor will fication of abnormal Orbiter and/or be the landing site, then it will take a payload hazards. After landing, the minimum of three days to move in the flight crew powers down and secures the personnel and equipment just to support a Orbiter. The flight crew egresses and a post-landing convoy. It will take control radius is established and main approximately eighteen days advance tained by security forces to restrict notice, prior to launch, to support a personnel around the Orbiter/cargo. rapid Orbiter turnaround operation. The Landing Recovery Director at the Kennedy Space Center and the contingency IIB-74 landing site Commander are to be notified systems prior to are in danger of freezing, then a contingency landing. In turn, the the Kennedy Space hypergol ic systems are deserviced Center Transportation first. The Office and the Deployed Orbiter is vented, drained, Operations Team purged, and the subsystems (DOT) are alerted. An advanced party, and ordnance are safed. It is at least fifteen called the Rapid Response Team (RRT) is (15) assembled days after the abort landing before the and dispatched to the contin cargo gency landing can be removed from the Orbiter site as quickly as possible. payload bay. The team consists of government and contractor personnel who are expected to Payload arrive at any contingency and Orbiter operations are then landing site conducted in parallel. within 24 (twenty-four) hours All Orbiter and of Orbiter payload operations are outdoors landing. The team: inspects the Orbiter (no hangar is provided). Mo particular cleanliness and requests the support equipment needed to correct level is provided for payload removal problems; contracts for local operations. heavy equipment Mobile cranes are used to needed on the scene; open the contracts for construction payload bay doors. The cranes of concrete are also used foundations for some for lightning protection of of the disassembly the Orbiter and payload. equipment and arranges for quarters for the follow-on crew and the warehousing of Payload bay ground support equipment. access platforms are installed to provide access to: payload/ Orbiter attach fittings (longerons); As aircraft are made available for payload/- transportation, Orbiter electrical interfaces; and pay- ground crews load the load/strongback ground support equipment attach points, Limited and related payload bay access supplies under the observation equipment may delay the of the initial payload safing until Deployed Operations Team members. after the The payload is removed from the Orbiter. first aircraft arrives with the Orbiter hazardous fluid deservicing equipment. Cargo elements are removed from the The ground operations crew, required for such payload bay by NASA and are normally deservicing, arrives with or before turned this equipment. over to the user for disassembly and packaging for transportation. For cargo The remaining made up of multiple elements, the Deployed Operations Team elements members continue loading are removed individually. the equipment. Orbiter preparations As aircraft are loaded, for mate to the a portion of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft team departs with them. On proceed parallel arrival , they with payload disassembly operations. assemble, check out, and validate the When payload and Orbiter operations are support equipment. Sling kits, payload strongback, complete, all work platforms and ground! hydrasets, transportation support equipment containers, protective are removed. Rental covers, deservicing equipment is returned equipment, rotational devices, to the lessor. All and special waste fluids are disposed of equipment are shipped to the landing by NASA. The site, area is cleaned and restored to the used as required, and returned to their satis normal faction of the local Ba.se Commander. Tie resident locations. Provisions are current made at the plan is to return all ground landing site for dual crane support equipment (2-hook) hoisting capability. by chartered slip. TYPICAL Orbiter deservicing CONTIMGEMCY ILItMPIiS SITE and mechanical opera RECOVERY OPERATIONS tions at the landing site are conducted on a continuous basis (3 eight hour shifts per The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite/ day) following landing, until return Inert lal ferry to the Upper Stage payload has been Kennedy Space Center. selected to Illustrate Payload deservicing and mechanical contingency si te payload recovery operations * operations are currently planned on a one- shift-per-day tasks are shown In the bar chart basis. The Orbiter is (Figure 5), jacked and leveled and access equipment is positioned. Ground power is connected TRACKING AMD iHTl and initial Orbiter power-up is accomp lished. The cryogenic fluids in the A Orbiter Tracking and Data Satellite Its iiit are deserviced first. If hyper- of a series golic systems of coMunlcatlon satellites* are damaged and hypergolic built by TRW. 'The TORS fluids are draining or venting, Is Into it or these geosynchronous orbl t by the Inertia! IIB-75 The strongback is detached ahd removed. Stage carrier so it can provide take place Upper to Some initial safing operations dedicated tracking and relay services protective covers are System and additional NASA for Space Transportation The payload handling fixture a 3-axis stabi installed. Operations. The TORS is to a propel 1 ant deservicing area. biased momentum is towed lized spacecraft, using propel 1 ant tanks are drained. is totally modular, The TORS towed wheels. The structure payload handling fixture is then module, communi The including an antenna to a payload processing area. Access module and a support system the handling cations by platforms are installed, module. Electrical power is supplied to a base, and the and fixture is attached deployable sun oriented panels handling fixture are rotated with the payload and batteries. All interfaces by a crane* Access panels are Inertia! Upper Stage to vertical utility Orbiter are via the opened and the flight avionics and airborne support equipment. devices and associated batteries are removed. Ordnance The TORS weighs 5,000 pounds (approx. preparations are made for 1,500 are removed, and 2250 kg) of which approximately TORS from the IUS. The hydrazine demating the pounds (approx. 680 kg) is access platform is removed, is pressurized to Spacecraft (N2H4) propel 1 ant which TORS is demated from the IUS, and 24 kg/cm 2 ). the it is 340 psig (approx. lowered onto a transporter* where to horizontal and secured for (IUS) rotated INERTIAL UPPER STAGE shipment. Stage is a solid rocket with The Inertia! Upper operations continue in parallel by the Air Force and IUS is booster, developed TDRS deservicing. A lifting fixture built by Boeing to add to the Space IUS and preparations are satellites connected to the Shuttle the capability to place from the payload handling components are made for removal in high orbits. The major A crane hoists the IUS away from rocket motors and an fixture. two sizes of solid payload handling fixture and positions The IUS weighs approxi the is then avionics bay. it on an assembly stand. The IUS pounds (approx. 14700 kg), mately 32,500 disassembled into its major component about 27,400 pounds (approx. of which The parts: 12400 kg) is solid propel!ant motors. in the payload is structurally supported frame Support Forward ASE payload bay, by the IUS Airborne Support Section weight of the Equipment Equipment (ASE). The total Navigation Subassembly IUS/TDRS and associated ASE is approxi Rocket Motor 20,000 kg). Second Stage mately 45,000 pounds (approx. Interstage Assembly Rocket Motor through First Stage Access to the payload is initially and Aft ASE Frame wheel Aft Skirt a panel in the righthand Orbiter bay liner is opened and well. The payload CARGO IMPACTS protective covers and limited access The payload bay equipment are installed. manpower and equipment needed to approximately 15 days The after doors are opened support a payload recovery operation landing. Payload bay access come from the after to an aborted mission will equipment is lowered and positioned team and the launch site All of the launch Operations access payload interfaces. This will have a disruptive electrical interface facilities. follow- payload to Orbiter effect on the operational flow of disconnected. Protective there cables are on missions. At most locations, installed on the IUS reaction environ covers are will be no post landing cooling, nozzles, first stage solid for the control motor mental control, or power available nozzle and antennas where before rocket motor cargo. There will be a long delay The payload mechanical The accessible. the payload can even be accessed. to the Orbiter are discon interfaces cargo will have to be removed outdoors, payload strongback is the nected. A large where it will be exposed to all by two cranes over the payload positioned environmental elements and the corres is attached to the payload bay. The strongback ponding contamination. Limited support equipment all of payload airborne access may dictate that part or The combined IUS/TDRS is then bay be trunnions. the initial payload safing functions of the payload bay and lowered from hoisted out delayed until after payload renoval payload handling fixture operations into a modular the Orbiter. Various hazardous This device is the only major 1 ant (Figure 6). such as ordnance safing and propel that has been designed and built optimum element drain may take place in less than solely for contingency payload operations. IIB-76 conditions. Overseas landing sites will The payload contractors need to identify have only limited communications all of the support which they require for available. Payload recovery, from a payload recovery, vrfiich exceeds their remote location, will be a major logistics resources. The host airfield is tasked to operation. It is currently estimated that provide various facility support items, it would take approximately 27 C5A and 14 such as: electrical power, fuel, tempo C141 aircraft to airlift all of the rary warehousing of equipment, office Orbiter and payload support equipment to a space, medical, security and fire support. contingency landing site. As a conse For those items, the host base can not quence, payload contractors must plan for provide, the Kennedy Space Center is recovery operations well before each responsible for procurement and supply. mission. It is incumbent on the payload contractor to develop a payload recovery The payload contractors need to determine plan and the procedures to support that if any support equipment will have to' be pi an. developed just 'for recovery operations. Such items will have to be procured, All of the equipment and personnel needed designed, fabricated, and tested. Early to recover the payload and Orbiter must be planning is essential, transported to the landing site. This operation involves several hundred ..In..addition to....the other problems, an personnel and massive amounts of support Orbiter abort landing and the subsequent equipment. The Kennedy Space Center payload recovery will be a highly visible Transportation Officer is responsible for media event. Extensive preplanning is arranging transportation to and from all essential. 'All of the problems associated off-site locations for both personnel and with a complex operation will be magnified support equipment. The payload contractor by the remote locations and long distances is responsible for identifying the from the launch site. recovery personnel they need to support the Deployed Operations Team. Each member of the team and their alternate must have the appropriate training for the tasks they are to accomplish and the equipment they are to use. In addition, they are to have the required training for access, safety, security and area orientation. Contractors are responsible for obtaining their own passports, appropriate visas and international drivers licenses. Each team member must also obtain the proper immuni zation. Contractors are to submit a detailed recovery personnel listing well in advance of launch. Payload contractors must identify all of the ground support equipment which they will require for payload recovery operations. The payload contractor must specify such things as: current equipment location, weight, volume, hazardous contents, and when required on the recovery site. This listing must also be submitted well in advance of launch. The contractor must further identify all of the Government furnished support equipment which he.will need for payload recovery. This would include such items as: cranes, forklifts, payload strongback, high rangers, payload handling fixture, scaffolding, etc. The concept for support equipment is to take only the minimum equipment necessary and to cross-utilize Orbiter/payload equipment when possible. I IB-77 ORBITER GROSS 385 WEIGHT-LB. 192.000 200,000 210,000 ORBITER C.G. X MUST LIE 380 1 r WITHIN THIS ENVELOPE 220, OOC X FOR Z ORBITER OPERATING VERTICAL C.G. LIMITATIONS LOCATION- INS. TO BE VALID 375 370 1070 1080 1090 1100 1110 1120 1130 1140 X ORBITER LONGITUDINAL C.G. LOCATION-INS. PERMISSIBLE C.G. LIMITS FOR HEAVY ORBITER FERRY FIGURE 1 HOURS 0 8 16 2k 32 40 48 56 64 72 80 88 96 104 112 120 4fc» ORBITER LANDING •••POST LANDING OPERATIONS • TOW TO ORBITER PROCESSING FACILITY • JACK t LEVEL ORB ITER I ORBITER PREPS 1 PREP & OPEN PAYLOAD BAY DOORS INSTALL PAYUMO BAY ACCESS EQUIPMENT PREPARE AND REMOVE CARGO I TRANSFER CARGO TO PAYLOAD FACILITY PAYLOAD OPERATIONS 0 PROPELLANT DESERVICE 0 SAFING 0 DISASSEMBLY o PREP FOR SHIPMENT o REFURBISHMENT 0 STORAGE 0 16 24 |2 10 48 $6 64 72 808( 88 96 T04 112 120 TYPICAL PAYLOAO REMOVAL AT PRIMARY LANDING SITE (KSC) FIGURE 2 IIB-78 DAYS 1 2 3 456 7 8,9 10 11 12 13 !<» 15 16 <*> ORBITER LANDING ••••• POST LANDING OPERATIONS • TOW TO HANGAR . ? . -- • ,:£*:. ••• DISCONNECT £ REMOVE PAYLOAD • REPOSITION PAYLOAD •••• CLOSE PAYLOAD BAY DOORS " ' f. ' '''••'•.•.«£••;.'• -''. •• INSTALL TAILCONE r>j . 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SCAPE & PERSONNEL ARRIVE D ASSEMBLE & TEST HYPER DESVC GSE & SCAPE ••• CONFIG HYPER OESVC GSE i HYPER DESERVICE FREEZE PROOF REMAINING FLU 10 SYSTEMS/REMOVE SSME*S SAFE & OESERVICE P/L i———' • INSTALL TA I LCON6 i I I PREP & SHIP P/L I A SLD & MATING GSE READY • PREP FORM ATE ] • CREW EQUIP REMOVAL - .••'MATE '" • ' I TPS INSPECTION . • AFT.PtOSEOUT | '": "' A ^ 6 RR'Y DEPARTURE ASSEMBLE TAILCONE-______I______DISASSEMBLE & PACK SLD f i ASSEMBLE/PROOF TEST 81,0 ft MATING GSE DISASSEMBLE & PACK ORBITER GSE 1 SECURE SCAPE & SHIP CONTAMINATED WASTE tr.-?;;rr-g I RECEIVE & UNLOAD SLO i, MATING GSE 1; T AI .CO S t NEGOTIATE CONSTR & RENTAL AGREEMENTS TYPICAL ORBITER AND PAYLOAD RECOVERY FROM A CONTINGENCY UM»lMt Slit FIGURE 4 IIB-79 2k 26 HAYS 0 8 10 12 16 18 20 22 28 30 ORfclTCA LANDING • TOW TO DESERVICt AREA *• RAPID RESPONSE TEAM ARRIVAL lORBITER SAF1NG ft GSE PREPS •• ORBITER DESERVICE •• PREP tO OPEN PAYLOAD BAY DOORS •I OPEN PAYLOAD BAY DOORS ••REMOVE IUS/TDRS s INSTALL IN HANDLING DEVICE •I CLOSE PAYLOAD BAY DOORS • MOVE IUS/TDRS tO PAYLOAD PROCESSING AREA ••SAFE IUS/TDRS •Hfe PREP t OFFLOAD TDRS PROP ELL ANTS ••ROTATE IUS/TDRS TO VERTICAL (•DEMATE TDRS •I frREP TDRS FOR TRANSPORT REHOVE IUS FROM HANDLING DEVICEW DISMANTLE I US I PREP FOR TRANSPORT •AMHHi REMOVE GSEMil PREP FOUNDATION FOR PAYLOAD HANDLING DEVICE PREP CARGO OPS SITE & ASSEMBLE HANDLING DEVICE •••••••••FOUNDATION CURE TIME DISMANTLE HANDLING DEVICE * CARGO OPS SITE 22 2* 26 28 30 DAYS 0 6 8 10 12 l «yiTHm$S!Ofi SUPPORT EQUIPMENT PAYUMD HANDLING FIXTURE PAY LOAD 1 INSTALLATION AMD' ROTATION TO VERTICAL. 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