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The EELV Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) is an adapter for launching secondary payloads on orbital launch vehicles.. Originally developed for US launch vehicles in the 2000s to launch secondary payloads on space missions of the United States Department of Defense that used the Atlas V and Delta IV, the adapter design has become a de facto standard and is now also used for spaceflight missions ...
2.2.3 Long Duration Propulsive ESPA (LDPE) 2.2.4 Vigoride by ... LDPE is based on a Northrop Grumman payload adapter used to help attach the upper stage to the ...
SHERPA is a commercial satellite dispenser developed by Andrews Space, a subsidiary of Spaceflight Industries, [1] and was unveiled in 2012. The maiden flight was on 3 December 2018 on a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket, and it consisted of two separate unpropelled variants of the dispenser.
50,000-100,000 kg (Block 1) 100,000-150,000 kg (Block 2) 200,000 kg (Block 3) 2023 Active, reflight planned Second stage: 7 0 0 United Launch Alliance: Vulcan Centaur: First stage engine module 2 0 0 27,200 kg 2024 Active, recovery planned Space Pioneer: Tianlong-3: First stage 1 0 0 17,000 kg 2024 Planned Blue Origin: New Glenn: First stage ...
NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility, or LDEF (pronounced "eldef"), was a cylindrical facility designed to provide long-term experimental data on the outer space environment and its effects on space systems, materials, operations and selected spores' survival. [2] [3] It was placed in low Earth orbit by Space Shuttle Challenger in April 1984.
The EDO pallet mounted in the back of Columbia ' s payload bay. The Extended Duration Orbiter Cryogenic kit (EDO-pallet or CRYO) was a 15-foot-diameter (4.6 m) equipment assembly which attached vertically to the payload bay rear bulkhead of an orbiter, and allowed the orbiter to support a flight of up to 16 days duration. [1]
“This is an exciting opportunity for us to research, in real time, how a battery electric vehicle performs on patrol,” said Col. James F. Grady II, director of the Michigan State Police.
Electron is a two-stage, partially reusable orbital launch vehicle developed by Rocket Lab, an American aerospace company with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. [14] [15] Servicing the commercial small satellite launch market, [16] it is the third most launched small-lift launch vehicle in history.