MBB‐ERNO Starts Detail Definition for COLUMBUS: First launches planned from mid‐nineties onwards

Abstract

THE smallest will be first: according to present plans, the Polar Platform is to be the first flight configuration from the European COLUMBUS programme to take up work in 1995. An ARIANE 5 will launch the platform whose task will be earth observation. The large COLUMBUS laboratory that is to form an integral part of the international space station of NASA will follow in 1996, launched with the US space shuttle.

Citation

(1987), "MBB‐ERNO Starts Detail Definition for COLUMBUS: First launches planned from mid‐nineties onwards", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 59 No. 8, pp. 5-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb036484