Space Industries Incorporated

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Space Industries Incorporated was a company formed in the 1980s for the purpose of building a privately owned space station, which was to be called the Industrial Space Facility (ISF). At the time, the idea of private development in space was a pioneering one.

History

Space Industries was founded in

life support system of the Space Shuttle
when it visited, but would not maintain continuous life support between shuttle visits. Faget proposed this plan because maintaining continuous life support would be cost prohibitive.

developer
.

Calaway lobbied the

Reagan Administration requested $700 million from the annual budget in order to participate in the project, but the request was not approved by Congress
, and the space station was never built.

The company eventually merged with Calspan Corporation, which in turn merged with

General Dynamics Corporation.[1]

Industrial Space Facility

The ISF was scheduled for launch in the early 1990s. It was to have 31 payload racks housing up to 11,000 kg (11 tons) of commercial industrial and microgravity manufacturing experiments. It was to have a pair of 140 m2 (1500 sq. ft.) solar panels each producing 20 kW of power.[2] Software was developed that used a learning heuristic algorithm in order to most efficiently use the ISF's resources.[3]

References

  1. ^ Kaplan, David (August 25, 2007). "Space station idea was far-out at the time". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2007-08-26.
  2. ^ Lindroos, Marcus. "Industrial Space Facility". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Archived from the original on April 9, 2002. Retrieved 2007-08-28.
  3. Bibcode:1989coae.conf.1088K
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