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Capcom: September October 2016 your window to space capcom Volume 27 Number 1 September - October 2016 Deep Space Habitat is NASA’s Next Step on its Journey to Mars . Concept image of Lockheed Martin’s refurbished multi-purpose logistics module prototype Credits: Lockheed Martin CapCom is published by Midlands Spacefight Society www.midspace.org.uk Editor: Mike Bryce | President: David J Shayler | Secretary: Dave Evets Honorary Member: Helen Sharman OBE Midlands Spacefight Society: CapCom: Volume 27 no 1 September - October 2016 space news roundup NASA Selects Six Companies to Develop Prototypes, Concepts for Deep Space Habitats NASA has selected six U.S. companies to help advance the Journey to million, with additonal eforts and funding contnuing into 2018. Mars by developing ground prototypes and concepts for deep space Selected partners are required to contribute at least 30 percent of the habitats. cost of the overall proposed efort. Through the public-private partnerships enabled by the Next Space The ground prototypes will be used for three primary purposes: Technologies for Exploraton Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2) Broad supportng integrated systems testng, human factors and operatons Agency Announcement, Appendix A, NASA and industry partners will testng, and to help defne overall system functonality. These are expand commercial development of space in low-Earth orbit while important actvites as they help defne the design standards, common also improving deep space exploraton capabilites to support more interfaces, and requirements while reducing risks for the fnal fight extensive human spacefight missions. systems that will come afer this phase. The selected companies are: NASA made the frst NextSTEP selectons in 2015, which include deep space habitaton concept studies that also advance low-Earth orbit * Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas commercial capabilites. Four companies were selected under that solicitaton: Bigelow Aerospace LLC, Boeing, Lockheed Martn and * Boeing of Pasadena, Texas Orbital ATK. * Lockheed Martn of Denver This round of NextSTEP selectons are part of a phased approach that will catalyze commercial investment in low-Earth orbit and lead to an * Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia operatonal deep space habitaton capability for missions in the area of space near the moon, which will serve as the proving ground for Mars * Sierra Nevada Corporaton’s Space Systems of Louisville, during the 2020s. These missions will demonstrate human, robotc Colorado and spacecraf operatons in a true deep space environment that’s stll relatvely close to Earth and validate technologies for the longer journey * NanoRacks of Webster, Texas to Mars. Habitaton systems provide a safe place for humans to live as we move The actvites of these NextSTEP awards will inform the acquisiton and beyond Earth on our Journey to Mars. deployment approach for the next phase of fight systems for deep space including important aspects, such as standards and interfaces, “NASA is on an ambitous expansion of human spacefight, including the module confguratons, and optons for deployment using SLS and Journey to Mars, and we’re utlizing the innovaton, skill and knowledge Orion and commercial vehicles. In additon to U.S. industry, NASA is of both the government and private sectors,” said Jason Crusan, director in discussions on collaboratve opportunites with our internatonal of NASA’s Advanced Exploraton Systems. “The next human exploraton partners to enable fully operatonal deep space habitaton capability. capabilites needed beyond the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule are deep space, long duraton habitaton and in-space NextSTEP is managed by the Advanced Exploraton Systems Division propulsion. We are now adding focus and specifcs on the deep space (AES) in NASA’s Human Exploraton and Operatons Mission Directorate. habitats where humans will live and work independently for months or AES is pioneering innovatve approaches and public-private partnerships years at a tme, without cargo supply deliveries from Earth.” to rapidly develop prototype systems, advance key capabilites, and validate operatonal concepts for future human missions beyond Earth The six partners will have up to approximately 24 months to develop orbit. ground prototypes and/or conduct concept studies for deep space habitats. The contract award amounts are dependent on contract negotatons, and NASA has estmated the combined total of all the NASA awards, covering work in 2016 and 2017, will be approximately $65 http://www.nasa.gov/nextstep Concept image of Orbital ATK’s cislunar habitat based, based on the design of the Cygnus spacecraft. Credits: Orbital ATK page 2 Midlands Spacefight Society: CapCom: Volume 27 no 1 September - October 2016 Crew Access Arm Installed for Starliner NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Missions Speeds Toward The Crew Access Arm for a new generation of spacecraft was lifted into Asteroid Rendezvous place the morning of 15 August at Space Launch Complex-41 where NASA's frst asteroid sampling mission launched into space at 00:05 BST on FrIday 9 September workers are modifying the launch pad to give astronauts access to from Cape Canaveral Air Force Staton in Florida, beginning a journey that could Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on launch day. revolutonize our understanding of the early solar system. The Origins, Spectral Interpretaton, Resource Identfcaton, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraf is designed to rendezvous with, study, and return a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth. Asteroids like Bennu are remnants from the formaton of our solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago. Scientsts suspect that asteroids may have been a source of the water and organic molecules for the early Earth and other planetary bodies. An uncontaminated asteroid sample from a known source would enable precise analyses, providing results far beyond what can be achieved by spacecraf-based instruments or by studying meteorites. In 2018, OSIRIS-REx will approach Bennu – which is the size of a small mountain – and begin an intricate dance with the asteroid, mapping and studying Bennu in preparaton for sample collecton. In July 2020, the spacecraf will perform a daring maneuver in which its 11-foot arm will reach out and perform a fve- second “high-fve” to str up surface material, collectng at least 2 ounces (60 grams) of small rocks and dust in a sample return container. OSIRIS-REx will return the sample to Earth in September 2023, when it will then be The 50-foot-long, 90,000-pound arm will the nearly 200-foot-tall structure. It is transported to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in form a bridge between the newly built the frst new crew access structure at the Houston for examinaton. Crew Access Tower and the hatch of the Florida spaceport since the space shuttle’s spacecraft. Astronauts will walk across the Fixed Service Structures were put in place The OSIRIS-REx mission will be the frst U.S. arm to climb inside the Starliner for fight. before Columbia’s frst fight in 1981. It also mission to carry samples from an asteroid back Poised to begin a mission, the Starliner will is the frst new crew access tower at Cape to Earth and the largest sample returned from sit on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas Canaveral Air Force Station since the Apollo space since the Apollo era. V rocket. Program. NASA http://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex The arm also holds the so-called “White The advances reminded some of the early Room”, an enclosed area big enough for days of human spacefight when the frst astronauts to make fnal adjustments to generation Atlas rockets put astronauts into their suits before climbing aboard the orbit. spacecraft. Earth is not the only place work is underway The addition of the arm is the latest in to prepare for Commercial Crew missions. a rapid string of accomplishments for Astronauts on the International Space NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and Station will perform a spacewalk Friday to its partners. Working independently on install an International Docking Adapter separate contracts with NASA’s program, to a station port that will allow visiting Boeing and SpaceX are developing spacecraft including those on commercial spacecraft and launch systems to take crew missions to dock with the orbiting astronauts to the International Space laboratory. Carried into orbit during the Station. The additional launch capability most recent cargo resupply mission, the will allow the resident crew of the station IDA will become a doorway for astronauts to grow by one, efectively doubling the as they cross from their spacecraft into the time astronauts have in orbit to conduct station. The adapters are outftted with science vital to spacefight research, as well a network of sensors and fxtures that as investigations into benefts for those on work with automated systems to dock the Earth. spacecraft to the port. The arm and tower have been constructed By Steven Sicelof, between Atlas V launches at SLC-41. The NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida arm was built at a construction yard near www.nasa.gov NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and trucked to the launch pad on on 11 August. The page 3 tower was built in segments close to the launch pad and stacked together to form Midlands Spacefight Society: CapCom: Volume 27 no 1 September - October 2016 NASA Approves 2018 Launch of Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Mars InSight Mission Anything Encountered in Solar NASA has set a new launch opportunity, beginning System May 5, 2018, for the InSight mission to Mars. InSight is the frst mission dedicated to investgatng the Juno successfully executed the frst of 36 orbital fybys on Aug. 27 deep interior of Mars. The fndings will advance when the spacecraf came about 2,500 miles (4,200 kilometers) above understanding of how all rocky planets, including Jupiter’s swirling clouds. The download of six megabytes of data Earth, formed and evolved.
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