Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB)

Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB)

Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB)

Developed a platform called the Space Pallet Satellite, or SPAS. It is a truss of graphite-epoxy tubes and fits snugly into the bay of the space shuttle.

Created: 2023-08-19

Updated: 2024-02-18

Company - Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB)

Founded
Country
1968
Germany
Funding
Yes, ?
Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm (MBB)

Product/Service - SPAS (Space Pallet Satellite), Saenger, Sänger

Classification
Miscellaneous
Category
Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
Microgravity Flight Service (Reusable Satellite)
Reusable Satellite
Point-to-point
Transport Service (Earth-LEO)
Robotic Space Station
Fields
Spaceplane
Automated Microgravity Laboratory
Status
Cancelled, Acquired
First launch
1983

Space Pallet Satellite (SPAS)

Developed a platform called the Space Pallet Satellite, or SPAS. It is a truss of graphite-epoxy tubes and fits snugly into the bay of the space shuttle. On the seventh shuttle flight, it was released from the shuttle, was operated for ten hours, and was then retrieved. It flew again on the tenth shuttle flight, remaining in the cargo bay and carrying equipment for several commercial users into orbit. It has only battery power and uses compressed cans of gas to push it around, so it is suitable only for short-duration missions. But it's cheap; the basic platform costs less than $4 million.

STS-7 mission in 1983 also carried the first Shuttle pallet satellite (SPAS-1), which was built by the West German aerospace firm Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB). SPAS-1 was unique in that it was designed to operate in the payload bay or be deployed by the Remote Manipulator System (Canadarm) as a free-flying satellite. It carried 10 experiments to study formation of metal alloys in microgravity, the operation of heat pipes, instruments for remote sensing observations, and a mass spectrometer to identify various gases in the payload bay. It was deployed by the Canadarm and flew alongside and over Challenger for several hours, performing various maneuvers, while a U.S.-supplied camera mounted on SPAS-1 took pictures of the orbiter. The Canadarm later grappled the pallet and returned it to the payload bay.

Saenger (Sänger)

West German concept design for a two-stage-to-orbit spaceplane.

Spacelab

Construction of Spacelab was started in 1974 by Entwicklungsring Nord (ERNO), a subsidiary of VFW-Fokker GmbH, after merger with Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) named MBB/ERNO, and merged into EADS SPACE Transportation in 2003.

European Retrievable Carrier

The European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) was an uncrewed 4.5-tonne satellite with 15 experiments.[2] It was a European Space Agency (ESA) mission and the acronym was derived from Archimedes' bathtub revelation "Eureka!".

It was built by the German MBB-ERNO and had automatic material science cells as well as small telescopes for solar observation (including x-ray).

It was launched 31 July 1992 by Space Shuttle Atlantis during STS-46, and placed into an orbit at an altitude of 508 km (316 mi). EURECA was retrieved on 1 July 1993 by Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-57 and returned to Earth

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