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Aircraft / Spacecraft

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The aircraft or spacecraft that serves as the platform for carrying payload(s), instrument(s), humans, and other mission-oriented equipment in space or air to the mission destination(s) to achieve the mission objectives. The aircraft or spacecraft may be a single aircraft or spacecraft or multiple crafts/modules (i.e. cruise stage, orbiter, lander, or rover modules). Each craft/module of the system includes the following subsystems as appropriate: Crew, Power, Command & Data Handling, Telecommunications, Mechanical, Thermal, Propulsion, Guidance Navigation and Control, Wiring Harness, and Flight Software. This element also includes all design, development, production, assembly, test efforts and associated GSE to deliver the completed system for integration with the launch vehicle and payload. This element does not include integration and test with payloads and other project systems.

Date Last Modified

2007-01-16