Bibcode
Bueno, José Ignacio; Vázquez, Javier
Referencia bibliográfica
In: Proceedings of the 9th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium, 19-21 September 2001, Liège, Belgium. Compiled by R. A. Harris. ESA SP-480, Noordwijk, Netherlands: ESA Publications Division, ISBN 92-9092-761-5, 2001, p. 351 - 354
Fecha de publicación:
9
2001
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Descripción
The selection from available commercial market of a set of slides to be
used in an habitable pressurised module in space, to draw a 660 mm box
out of a rack, up to a completely extracted position in a safely
supported configuration, seems in principle not to be a complicated
task. That was the first approach taken in the design process of the
telescopic guides of the Crew Work Bench (CWB) included in the Fluid
Science Laboratory (FSL), part of "ESA Microgravity Facilities for
Columbus" within the Columbus Orbital Facility (COF) of the
International Space Station (ISS). Nevertheless, common space compatible
requirements such as materials, specific environmental loads, available
envelope, total weight, etc., can make the selection of telescopic
slides from commercial market unfeasible. A specific development to
design space compatible telescopic slides for the CWB was undertaken. A
set of heavy duty space compatible telescopic slides were designed,
manufactured and tested. They should be operative in both, 1-g
environment and in orbit, and additionally should withstand an
inadvertent astronaut kick or bump of 556 N in any direction.