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Accession Number
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N20120012885
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Title
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Building Transatlantic Partnerships in Space Exploration The MPCV-SM Study.
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Publication Date
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May 2012
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Media Count
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19p
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Personal Author
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F. Fenoglio J. Grantier K. Schubert L. Price P. Deloo S. Chavy
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Abstract
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Following the approval of the ESA ISS Exploitation Declaration for the ISS lifetime at the ESA Council Meeting in March 2011, ESA decided to partially offset the European obligations deriving from the extension of the ISS Programme until end 2020 with different means than ATVs, following the ATV-5 mission foreseen in mid 2014. The envisioned approach is based on a barter element(s) that would generate cost avoidance on the NASA side. NASA and ESA considered a number of Barter options, and concluded that the provision by ESA of the Service Module for the NASA Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) was the barter with the most interest. A joint ESA - NASA working group was established to assess the feasibility of Europe developing this Module based on ATV heritage. The working group was supported by European and US industry namely Astrium, TAS-I and Lockheed-Martin. This paper gives an overview of the results of the on-going study as well as its perspective utilisation for the global space exploration endeavour.
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Keywords
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Aerospace industry
Ariane 5 launch vehicle
European space agency
Feasibility analysis
International cooperation
Manned space flight
Nasa space programs
Project management
Service modules
Space exploration
Spacecraft design
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Source Agency
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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NTIS Subject Category
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84G - Unmanned Spacecraft
84C - Manned Spacecraft
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Corporate Author
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cleveland, OH. NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field.
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Document Type
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Conference proceedings
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Title Note
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N/A
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NTIS Issue Number
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1303
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Contract Number
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N/A
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