TERSSE DEFINITION OF THE TOTAL EARTH RESOURCES SYSTEM FOR THE SHUTTLE ERA VOLUME 6 AN EARLY SHUTTLE PALLET CONCEPT FOR THE EARTH RESOURCES PROGRAM

摘要

This report deals with one of the more detailed and specific tasks of the TERSSE study: the design of a Space Shuttle pallet-only mission which can be flown very early in the Shuttle Program. It was well understood at the beginning of the study that there would likely be profitable missions evolved by the TERSSE study team for which the Shuttle Sortie was suited even though the form of these missions would not be known until well into the study. Thus, a pallet-only mission design task of brief scope was planned for the late months of the study.