Abstract

From February until December 2022 the iSSI (intelligent Space System Interface) Modular Coupling Kit has been successfully demonstrated and tested on iSEEP aboard the KIBO external platform of the International Space Station ISS in the course of the US Mission iSSI-FQE (Flight Qualification Experiment) with the objective to verify the iSSI potential for a broad range of ISAM use cases. The mission has been funded by DIU and carried out by iBOSS US partner Skycorp Incorporated, in collaboration with iBOSS and SpaceBD, NASA, ISSNL, and others. The upswing of innovative and commercial NewSpace ventures and general space industry trends suggest a move toward higher lot sizes of systems, subsystems and components, thus, series production. At large, these developments and concepts will benefit from cooperative design and plug-and-play (PnP) principles, which in turn are centered around …

Metadata

publication

ASCEND 2023, 4702, 2023

year

2023

publication date

2023

authors

Joerg Kreisel, Thomas A Schervan, Steve L Kwast, Dennis R Wingo, David Barnhart

link

https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2023-4702

book

ASCEND 2023

pages

4702