• The Payload Assist Module (PAM) is a modular upper stage designed and built by McDonnell Douglas (Boeing), using Thiokol Star-series solid propellant...
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    complete stage (motor plus accessories) was referred to as the Payload Assist Module (PAM), as the Shuttle could only take satellites to low Earth orbit...
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    of the suit (1981–1984); astronaut office representative for the Payload Assist Module (PAM-D) procedures and development (1982–1983); Astronaut office...
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  • Lin (3 October 2022). "何謂載荷專家 在太空站要從事什麼工作?" [What is a payload specialist? What does a payload specialist do on the space station?]. HK01 (in Chinese)...
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    flying on over 70 missions. The Star 48, also referred to as the Payload Assist Module-Delta (PAM-D, PAM-Delta), was the more, powerful of the two options...
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    both were Hughes-built satellites. Telesat-I was attached to a Payload Assist Module (PAM-D) motor and successfully deployed. Syncom IV-3, however, failed...
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  • service afterward, but the perigee kick motor (also known as the Payload Assist Module, or PAM) on the satellite failed during its approach to geosynchronous...
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    Space tug (category Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback via Module:Annotated link)
    an upper stage called PAM-G (Payload Assist Module for Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle) capable of pushing payloads directly to MEO or GEO orbits...
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    traveling-wave tube assemblies Ulysses Solid rocket motor Space Shuttle Payload Assist Module Star scanner Inertial Upper Stage Thrusters Voyager program...
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  • Partitioning Around Medoids, in statistics, a data clustering algorithm Payload Assist Module, a small rocket engine, also referred to as a PAM-D Phone-as-Modem...
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    second stage with TRW TR-201 engine. Delta 3000 introduced the PAM (Payload Assist Module) / Star 48B solid-fueled kick motor, which was later used as Delta II...
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    STS-61-B (section Payload)
    Space and Communications HS-376 satellites and were equipped with a Payload Assist Module (PAM-D) booster to reach geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). Satcom-K2...
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    Boeing IUS (Inertial Upper Stage), plus a McDonnell Douglas PAM-S (Payload Assist Module-Special). The IUS was inertially stabilised and actively guided...
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  • PAM-G  India Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle In development Payload Assist Module/Star-48B  United States Delta 3000, Delta 4000, Delta II, Space...
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    communications satellites from the orbiter's payload bay. The mission marked the first use of the Payload Assist Module (PAM-D) and its new ejection system. Numerous...
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    the Shuttle's payload bay. The mission marked the Shuttle's first use of an upper-stage rocket for payloads, the Payload Assist Module (PAM-D). The satellites...
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    three were Hughes-built satellites. All three successfully utilized Payload Assist Module (PAM-D) booster stages to achieve geostationary transfer orbits...
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    communications satellites from the Orbiter's payload bay. The mission marked the first use of the Payload Assist Module (PAM-D), and its new ejection system....
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    Deliver" mission. Two commercial communications satellites with Payload Assist Module upper stages (PAM-D) were successfully deployed from the Orbiter's...
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  • minutes Deployed three communications satellites, all attached to Payload Assist Module-D (PAM-D) Michel Tognini Soyuz TM-15 / Soyuz TM-14 July 27, 1992...
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    that two separate satellites were deployed, using single-stage Payload Assist Module (PAM-D). Rumors that appear to have been substantiated by the identification...
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    STS-41-B mission had launched two Hughes HS-376 satellites. After the Payload Assist Module (PAM) of the first failed, leaving it in an unusable orbit, they...
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    service afterward, but the perigee kick motor (also known as the Payload Assist Module, or PAM) on the satellite failed during its approach to geosynchronous...
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    port for the airlock module, similar to the two windows on the Kibo Pressurized Module. The airlock, Shk, is designed for a payload with dimensions up to...
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    located out on booms at the maximum radius that the Space Shuttle Orbiter Payload Bay would accommodate (4.4-m or 14.5-ft diameter). The actual propulsion...
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    mission-specific Payload Assist Module-S (PAM-S), combined for the first time to send Ulysses toward an out-of-ecliptic trajectory. Other payloads and experiments...
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    for the ISS include the addition of at least one module, Axiom Space's Payload Power Thermal Module. The station is expected to remain operational until...
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    the "Payload Assist Module", or PAM), both manufactured originally by Thiokol, and today by Northrop Grumman. They are used to lift large payloads to intended...
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    is that one of the three Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) was converted to a permanent module for the International Space Station. More than twenty...
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    launched a U.S. Air Force satellite the year before. 2001: a Star 48 Payload Assist Module (PAM-D) rocket upper stage re-entered the atmosphere after a "catastrophic...
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