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SPACEHAB-1
Commercial pressurized research module
SPACEHAB 1 was the first flight of the commercial Single Research Module, carried in Endeavour's payload bay on STS-57. A pressurized tunnel let the crew enter the aluminum laboratory from the middeck and tend 22 research and technology payloads. Standardized lockers, experiment racks, power, data, ventilation, and cooling turned payload-bay volume into an additional shirt-sleeve workspace without creating a free-flying spacecraft.
Parent systems
The larger spacecraft or system this hardware belongs to.
Payload dossier
Identity and integration
- Official configuration designation
- Single Research Module
Research configuration
- Module dimensions
- Approximately 10 feet long and 13.5 feet in diameter
- Experiment and cargo accommodation
- Up to 61 standard Shuttle middeck lockers, or a mixture of lockers and single or double SPACEHAB racks
- Research or logistics complement
- 22 research and technology payloads on the module's inaugural commercial laboratory flight
Resources and accommodations
- Pressurized volume
- Approximately 1,100 cubic feet (31 cubic meters) of pressurized volume
- Payload mass capacity
- Approximately 9,200 pounds empty with up to 3,000 pounds of user payload
- Electrical-power service
- Approximately 1.4 to 3.15 kilowatts of payload DC power, 625 watts during ascent and descent, and up to 690 volt-amperes of AC power in the single-module accommodation standard
- Thermal-control service
- Up to approximately 4 kilowatts of liquid cooling and 2 kilowatts of air cooling for payload equipment in the single-module accommodation standard
- Command and data interface
- Payload telemetry service at 2 or 16 kilobits per second with command, systems, and vacuum-vent interfaces
- Crew and Shuttle interface
- Mounted in the payload bay and connected to the middeck and airlock through a pressurized access tunnel
- Crew-tended service life
- Remained attached to the Orbiter while the crew operated experiments or transferred cargo; 1 archived carrier flight
Dimensions and construction
- Pressure-vessel construction
- Pressurized aluminum module structure carried inside the Shuttle payload bay
Flight operations and results
- Developer and mission integrator
- SPACEHAB Inc.; module development by McDonnell Douglas and later mission integration by Boeing-Huntsville
- Carrier-flight operation
- STS-57; the first linked operation lasted 9d 23h 44m
- Recorded mission result
- Qualified the first SPACEHAB flight module in orbit while the crew operated 22 research and technology payloads and returned the laboratory for reuse.
Supported mission records
Missions that carried, used, tested, serviced, or depended on this hardware.
Photo Archive
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