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Rockwell to produce commercially a cryogenic pallet for extended duration orbiter. Rockwell will fund design and construction of the cryogenic pallet. First EDO mission (13 days) is scheduled aboard Columbia in March 1992. Specific details of the cost to Shuttle customers are to be negotiated.
Rockwell to produce commercially a cryogenic pallet for extended duration orbiter. Rockwell will fund design and construction of the cryogenic pallet. First EDO mission (13 days) is scheduled aboard Columbia in March 1992. Specific details of the cost to Shuttle customers are to be negotiated.
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Rockwell to produce commercially a cryogenic pallet for extended duration orbiter. Rockwell will fund design and construction of the cryogenic pallet. First EDO mission (13 days) is scheduled aboard Columbia in March 1992. Specific details of the cost to Shuttle customers are to be negotiated.
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Transportation System Division, Downey, Calif., have signed a memorandum of agreement under which Rockwell will produce commercially a cryogenic pallet, a major element of NASA's extended duration orbiter (EDO) program to extend Space Shuttle missions up to 16 days.
The EDO cryogenic pallet holds spherical tanks of liquid
hydrogen and liquid oxygen, valve panels and avionics boxes. When installed in the back of the orbiter's payload bay, the pallet will feed additional cryogenic fluids to the orbiter's electricity-generating fuel cells, thereby extending the vehicle's normal mission time from 8 to 16 days. The first EDO mission (13 days) is scheduled aboard Columbia in March 1992.
Under terms of the agreement, Rockwell will fund the
design and construction of the EDO cryogenic pallet. NASA will reimburse Rockwell in 3 yearly installments after the pallet has been delivered in December 1991. NASA will offer the use of the EDO mission kit as an optional service to all Shuttle customers. Specific details of the cost to Shuttle customers are to be negotiated.
Rockwell is developing the 16-day EDO mission capability,
including the cryogenic pallet and other modifications to the orbiter Columbia, under terms of a June 1988 amendment to its existing NASA/Rockwell Shuttle orbiter contract. These other modifications include a regenerative carbon dioxide removal system, a new waste collector system, additional nitrogen tanks and crew cabin improvements for equipment storage.
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