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TITLE AND SUBTITLE:
Space Mechanisms Technology Workshop Proceedings

AUTHOR(S):
Robert L. Fusaro, editor

REPORT DATE:
October 1999

FUNDING NUMBERS:
WU-323-72-00-00

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES):
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field
Cleveland, Ohio 44135-3191

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER:
E-11770

SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES):
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington, DC 20546-0001

REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED:
Conference Publication

SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY REPORT NUMBER:
NASA CP-1999-209200

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES:
Responsible person, Robert L. Fusaro, NASA Glenn Research Center, organization code 5950, (216) 433-6080.

ABSTRACT:
Over the years, NASA has experienced a number of troublesome mechanism anomalies. Because of this, the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance initiated a workshop to evaluate the current space mechanism state-of-the-art and to determine the obstacles that will have to be met in order to achieve NASA's future missions goals. The workshop was co-sponsored by NASA/Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute (OAI) and was held at the Holiday Inn in Westlake, Ohio. Seventy experts in the field attend the workshop. The experts identified current and perceived future space mechanisms obstacles. For each obstacle, the participants identified technology deficiencies, the current state-of-the-art, and applicable NASA, DOD, and industry missions. In addition, the participants at the workshop looked at technology needs for current missions, technology needs for future missions, what new technology is needed to improve the reliability of mechanisms, what can be done to improve technology development and the dissemination of information, and what do we do next.


SUBJECT TERMS:
Mechanisms; Systems; Problems; Space; Mechanical components; Tribology; Lubrication; Deployables

NUMBER OF PAGES:
263

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