Bishop (ISS module)

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Bishop is a commercially financed pressure lock module that will be brought to the International Space Station in autumn 2020 with the SpaceX / NASA mission CRS-21 . The module is being built by NanoRacks, Boeing and Thales Alenia Space and is intended to be used to deploy Cubesats and other small satellites .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Falcon-9 v1.2 (Block 5) (Falcon-9FT (Block 5)) on Gunter's Space Page
  2. ↑ Upcoming ELaNa CubeSat Launches : "NET August 2020 - Mission: Space X-21". NASA, accessed May 18, 2020.
  3. ^ Gary L. Harris, Pablo de León: Proposed Androgynous Docking Airlock / Utility Module . In: SAE Technical Paper Series . SAE International, 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States July 12, 2009, doi : 10.4271 / 2009-01-2585 .
  4. ↑ Thales Alenia Space Joins NanoRacks on Commercial ISS Airlock Module . Press release from About Thales Alenia Space, February 4, 2018
  5. ↑ Chad Brinkley, Michael Johnson, Brock Howe: Commercial Airlock for the International Space Station . In: AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition . American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Reston, Virginia 2017, ISBN 978-1-62410-483-1 , doi : 10.2514 / 6.2017-5254 .