The Modular Common Spacecraft Bus (MCSB) is a fast-development, low-cost, general purpose spacecraft platform. Its modular design is intended to reduce...
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buses, of which multiple similar artificial satellites have been, or are being, built to the same model of structural frame, propulsion, spacecraft power...
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and test the PADME spacecraft, and manage mission operations. The proposal is to employ the proven Modular Common Spacecraft Bus (MCSB), previously used...
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result of a highly modular design that would carry over onto the upgraded variants. A total of four satellites based on the E1000 bus have been built and...
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LADEE (redirect from LADEE spacecraft)
(Minotaur V) and a spacecraft with no flight test legacy. (see Lunar transit, above.) LADEE mission makes use of the Modular Common Spacecraft Bus, or body, made...
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Moon Express (section Spacecraft)
instead. The company's robotic spacecraft are based on NASA's Modular Common Spacecraft Bus (MCSB), which are modular and scalable platforms that can...
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component (LRC), or line-replaceable item (LRI) is a modular component of an airplane, ship or spacecraft (or any other manufactured device) that is designed...
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1980s. The NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer NSSC-1 was developed as a standard component for the MultiMission Modular Spacecraft at the Goddard Space Flight...
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specified for the IEEE-488 instrumentation bus. Stackable mezzanine bus connectors are used on some modular microcomputer accessory boards for systems...
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Space tug (category Spacecraft propulsion)
A space tug is a type of spacecraft used to transfer spaceborne cargo from one orbit to another orbit with different energy characteristics. The term can...
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The following is a list of starships, cruisers, battleships, and other spacecraft in the Star Wars films, books, and video games. Within the fictional universe...
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Cyphal (category Serial buses)
deployed in numerous diverse systems including unmanned aerial vehicles, spacecraft, underwater robots, racing cars, general robotic systems, and micromobility...
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triple modular redundancy in processor core KOMDIV-64, 64-bit MIPS processors developed by NIISI Mongoose-V, a 32-bit MIPS processor for spacecraft applications...
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Project Ara (category Modular smartphones)
Project Ara was a modular smartphone project under development by Google. The project was originally headed by the Advanced Technology and Projects team...
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Mir (category Crewed spacecraft)
Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft. At the time it...
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altitudes require special provisions for reliability. As an example, the spacecraft Cassini–Huygens, launched in 1997, contained two identical flight recorders...
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Dead man's switch (section Spacecraft)
produced before 1995 did not originally carry this feature, but given the modular nature of the system it is not uncommon to find them retrofitted.[citation...
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James Webb Space Telescope (redirect from James Webb (spacecraft))
parts. Along with the sunshield, it forms the spacecraft element of the space telescope. The spacecraft bus is on the Sun-facing "warm" side of the sunshield...
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AMOS-2 (satellite) (category Spacecraft launched in 2003)
4° West longitude. AMOS-2 and AMOS-3 are placed in proximity to create common location, which enables to satellite users to increase user abilities without...
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Galileo project (section Spacecraft)
bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Galileo spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe. It was delivered...
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ISRO (section Modular Space Station)
medium-lift launch vehicle capable of putting 600-kilogram (1,300 lb) class spacecrafts into 1,000-kilometre (620 mi) Sun-synchronous orbit had already begun...
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Space Race (section First modular space station)
The Soviets designed their first human space capsule using the same spacecraft bus as their Zenit spy satellite, forcing them to keep the details and true...
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Avionics (category Spacecraft components)
The integrated modular avionics concept proposes an integrated architecture with application software portable across an assembly of common hardware modules...
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CubeRover is a class of planetary rover with a standardized modular format meant to accelerate the pace of space exploration. The idea is equivalent to...
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International Space Station (category Spacecraft launched in 1998)
habitation, storage, spacecraft control, and airlock operations. The ISS has eight docking and berthing ports for visiting spacecraft. The station orbits...
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MetOp (category Spacecraft decommissioned in 2022)
Command (TT&C). An Envisat heritage payload module provides common command and control and power buses for the instruments along with science data acquisition...
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suited to the noise the spacecraft was subject to (approximately matching a bell curve), and was implemented for the Mariner spacecraft and used on missions...
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The spacecraft was designed and built by TRW in Redondo Beach, Calif. Aqua is based on TRW's modular, standardized AB1200 common spacecraft bus. Leary...
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Orbital replacement unit (category Spacecraft components)
that can readily be removed and replaced when required. The replaceable modular nature of the station allows its life to be extended well beyond its initial...
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where people spend time". For instance, in Christopher Alexander's work, bus stops and waiting rooms in a surgery center are both within the context for...
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