The Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF) is a facility at Kennedy Space Center constructed by NASA in either 1994 or 1995 and used for spacecraft and...
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Kennedy Space Center (redirect from Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility)
The Multi-Payload Processing Facility is a 19,647 square feet (1,825.3 m2) building used for Orion spacecraft and payload processing. The Payload Hazardous...
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January 2014 it was announced that Boeing would lease the Orbiter Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center to enable the U.S. Air Force to efficiently...
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bays” designed as enclosed, protected spaces for stacking rocket stages, payloads, and other components vertically on a mobile launcher platform. This configuration...
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Orion (spacecraft) (redirect from Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle)
"De-servicing of Artemis I Crew Module complete! Teams in the Multi-Payload Processing Facility completed cleaning cycles & removal of avionics to be reused...
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The Space Systems Processing Facility (SSPF), originally the Space Station Processing Facility, is a three-story industrial building at Kennedy Space Center...
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The Columbus External Payload Facility (Columbus-EPF) is a component of the European Columbus module on the International Space Station (ISS). It consists...
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Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 (redirect from Payload Changeout Room)
vertically at the Payload Changeout Room. Otherwise, payloads would have already been pre-installed at the Orbiter Processing Facility and transported within...
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Apollo 11 Moon landing. The tour formerly included the Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF) where modules for the International Space Station were tested...
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Columbus (ISS module) (redirect from Columbus Orbital Facility)
Columbus was moved out of the KSC Space Station Processing Facility, and installed into the payload bay of the Atlantis orbiter for launch on ISS assembly...
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tail. The navalised version further will have longer range and higher payload capacity. HAL estimates requirement of over 314 rotocraft of same class...
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the facility for Orion production. The Orion spacecraft for Artemis 1 completed its assembly in this location and was moved to the Multi-Payload Processing...
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Fluid Science Laboratory (redirect from FSL (ISS Facility))
science payload designed for use in Columbus built by Alenia Spazio, OHB-System and Verhaert Design and Development. It is a multi-user facility for conducting...
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European Physiology Modules (redirect from EPM (ISS Facility))
The European Physiology Module (EPM) is an International Standard Payload Rack for the Columbus Laboratory on board the International Space Station. The...
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Kibō (ISS module) (section Exposed facility)
Experiment Facility (CBEF), Clean Bench (CB) KOBAIRO Rack 勾配炉 (こうばいろ, kōbairo) – Gradient Heating Furnace (GHF) MPSR-1 – Multi-Purpose Small payload Rack-1...
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(H&A) subsystem Verification and Validation testing at the Multi-Payload Processing Facility (MPPF). This testing allowed the Exploration Ground Systems...
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environment. Other payloads on board were part of the Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility Shuttle Small Payloads Project. The SSPP system...
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international Shuttle crew and the first to carry payload specialists. The crew conducted more than seventy multi-disciplinary scientific and technical investigations...
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SpaceX facilities (redirect from SpaceX Rocket Development and Test Facility)
Integration Facility (HIF) just outside the perimeter of the existing launch pad in order to "house the Falcon [rockets] and associated hardware and payloads during...
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variety of payload experiments for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Launch was originally scheduled for March 9, 1991, but during processing work at...
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originally designed to support the weight of the Saturn V rocket and its payload, plus the Launch Umbilical Tower and mobile launcher platform, atop a crawler-transporter...
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Observational Research Facility (WORF) is an experiment rack facility manufactured by the Brazilian Space Agency, which remotely operated payloads and crew members...
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Virginia-class submarine (redirect from Virginia Payload Module)
the Virginia Payload Module (VPM), which would give guided-missile capability when the SSGNs are retired from service. The Virginia Payload Module will...
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retrieve the Long Duration Exposure Facility and deploy the Chandra observatory, which was the heaviest payload ever carried by the Space Shuttle. Columbia...
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NASA's Space Station Processing Facility on 2 April 2010. After completing the final touches, it was placed into the shuttle payload transporter on 5 April...
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STS-8 (section Mission plan and payloads)
1986. The primary element of the STS-8 mission payload was INSAT-1B. It was the second in a series of multi-purpose weather and communications satellites...
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the EXpedite the Processing of Experiments to the Space Station (EXPRESS) Rack, the Electromagnetic Containerless Processing Facility (TEMPUS) and the...
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NISAR (satellite) (section Payload)
tests, NASA's C-130 took off from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to embark on the multi-leg, multi-day journey to India. The flight will first stop...
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also provided with an AN/AAS-52 Multi-spectral Targeting System (MTS) under the nose. The aircraft can carry a payload of 800 pounds (360 kg) and may be...
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