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Airbus DS and ESA launch external commercial payload platform for the ISS
by Staff Writers
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 06, 2016


This new space facility, named "Bartolomeo" after the younger brother of Christopher Columbus, will be attached to the outside of the European "Columbus" laboratory module in 2018, providing access to power and data resources for customer payloads.

Airbus Defence and Space and the European Space Agency have agreed to start a joint pilot project phase to prepare the operation and utilization of a new external payload platform on the European International Space Station (ISS) laboratory Columbus.

ESA and Airbus Defence and Space signed the corresponding Memorandum of Understanding on June 2, 2016 at the ILA Airshow in Berlin (Germany).

The Bartolomeo platform is envisioned to be embedded into an end-to-end service designed to provide fast, cost-efficient and reliable access to the ISS for private and institutional users on commercial terms.

The Bartolomeo all-in-one payload mission service is aimed at customers from areas including Earth observation, technology demonstrators, astro- and heliophysics, material science and new space flight applications.

"With Bartolomeo, we will provide a sustained commercial external payload hosting service on the ISS", said Francois Auque, Head of Space Systems. "With this infrastructure, we intend to enlarge the user community, and offer them a broader range of solutions that meet their needs and that can be deployed rapidly."

"Commercial partnership will play a growing role in the exciting ESA vision for space exploration", said David Parker, ESA Director for Human and Robotic Exploration.

"ESA intends to stimulate private sector engagement in space exploration and foster innovative and inspiring approaches for future ESA missions. Enhancing private sector capabilities and demand for ISS utilisation will open perspectives for commercial approaches for exploitation ISS and post-ISS infrastructures."

This new space facility, named "Bartolomeo" after the younger brother of Christopher Columbus, will be attached to the outside of the European "Columbus" laboratory module in 2018, providing access to power and data resources for customer payloads.

With almost 20 years of experience in the field of unpressurized cargo transportation and operation, this initiative strengthens Airbus Defence and Space's position as a provider of human spaceflight-related system solutions and end-to-end payload operation services.


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