Japan's ISS Program Status
- Paper number
IAC-06-B4.1.04
- Author
Dr. Kuniaki Shiraki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan
- Coauthor
Mr. Norihito Tsuji, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan
- Year
2006
- Abstract
On March 2, 2006, the heads of agencies met at the Kennedy Space Center to endorse the revised International Space Station (ISS) configuration and assembly sequence balancing both technical and programmatic needs for each partner after intensive coordination among the ISS partners. The ISS assembly will resume this year with the technical resolution of the Shuttle External Tank foam shedding issues, and the launch preparations of JAXA’s elements at the Kennedy Space Center will ramp up with the endorsed assembly sequence advancing the launch order of JAXA’s ISS module Kibo. This paper will provide the progress of JAXA’s ISS Program for the last one year activities. In 2006, JAXA plans to have the Kibo Pressurized Module (PM) at the Kennedy Space Center transitioned from the dwell period to the launch processing period; and the additional Kibo elements, such as the Experiment Logistics Module – Pressurized Section (ELM-PS), Kibo’s Remote Manipulator System (RMS) and payload racks, shipped to KSC. The system manufacturing status of the HTV-1 after its Critical Design Review \#2 in March 2006, as well as initiations of HTV operational vehicles procurement will also be included in the paper.
- Abstract document
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