Speaker
Dario Castagnolo
(Telespazio (Napoli))
Description
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit from 350 up to 450 km. The orbital period is 90 minutes, the inclination to the equatorial plane is 51.6.
The ISS is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998. The ISS serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which Crew members conduct experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology and other fields. The station is suited for the testing of spacecraft systems and equipment required for missions to the Moon and Mars. The ISS programme is a joint project among five participating space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA .
The lecture will deal with an overview of the ISS module, in terms of size, power and data distribution, and of the features Racks in the US LAB and in COLUMBUS. How the microgravity condition is established, the rotation of Astronaut and carriers is organized, and the life and the work of Astronaut are planned on board ISS will be the topics of the second part of the presentation
The integration process for a payload on board the launching carrier and the iSS, and the long term operations performed by European USOC will complete the lecture.
The attention of the audience will be then moved to the Drain Brain project, UNIFE will illustrate the scientific goals of the experiment and a payload description.
