Sentences with phrase «spacecraft bus»
"Spacecraft bus" refers to the main structure or framework of a spacecraft that carries various components and systems necessary for its functioning. It is like the backbone of the spacecraft that provides support and electrical connections for instruments, sensors, communication systems, and other equipment onboard. Just like a bus carries passengers, the spacecraft bus carries and connects different parts of the spacecraft. Full definition
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Denver -: The «Adapting Commercial Spacecraft for the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle» study will define system concepts for a Solar Electric Propulsion Module based on an existing commercial spacecraft bus and NASA Hall thrusters.
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These two halves of the James Webb Space Telescope observatory — Webb's combined science instruments and optics, and its combined spacecraft bus and sunshield (called the spacecraft element)-- will be integrated at Northrop Grumman in 2018.
Power: Gallium Arsenide triple junction solar arrays, 10 kW at Earth and 1.4 kW at Ceres Orbit Altitude: At target asteroids: As high as 4,500 km and as low as 25 km Reliability: Redundant and cross-strapped spacecraft bus electronics Mission Life: 10 years
The components were then shipped to prime contractor Northrop Grumman's facility in Redondo Beach, California, where they will be finally attached to the spacecraft bus and its tennis court — size deployable sunshield.
But similar work with the spacecraft bus and sunshield, at a Northrop Grumman facility in Redondo Beach, California, has experienced delays, they added.
The sunshield will be joined with the spacecraft bus (main structure) followed by more testing.
The two parts of the spacecraft — the telescope and instrument package and the spacecraft bus with sunshield — are waiting to be melded together at the facility of prime contractor Northrop Grumman in Redondo Beach, California.
The spacecraft element is Webb's combined sunshield and spacecraft bus.
The Optical Telescope Element is shipped to Johnson Space Center for cryogenic testing in a giant thermal vacuum chamber called «Chamber A.» The spacecraft bus is connected to the sunshield.
The telescope and instruments will be joined with the spacecraft bus and sunshield in 2018, and final tests of the full observatory will be conducted.
The WFIRST Project Office is at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), which also oversees the work on the Wide Field Imager instrument, the Spacecraft Bus, and System Integration.