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Loral To Build Critical Power Systems For Space Station
Palo Alto - Jul 10, 2003 Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications has won a contract from Boeing NASA Systems, Houston, Texas, to build 40 replacement batteries for the U.S. photovoltaic, or power-producing, module of the International Space Station (ISS). These replacement units will be used as spares or to replace older ISS batteries currently on orbit. "SS/L has been a key contractor to Boeing for a variety of ISS related projects over the past two decades, and we are very pleased to be continuing that work at this critical time in the development of the International Space Station," said C. Patrick DeWitt, president of Space Systems/Loral. The seven-year contract with Boeing NASA Systems calls for the delivery of 40 battery Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs), in addition to the 21 ISS battery ORUs that SS/L is currently on contract to deliver to Boeing over the next two years. SS/L's advanced nickel-hydrogen batteries are used to store electrical energy for use during the 16 solar eclipse periods that the ISS encounters during its daily orbits around the earth. Since 1994, SS/L has manufactured more than 50 batteries for the final on-orbit configuration of the Space Station. SS/L's first batteries were carried to the Space Station on November 30, 2000, aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Loral Space & Communications SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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