ESAS DATA MANAGEMENT-SYSTEM FOR THE RUSSIAN SEGMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL-SPACE-STATION

In October 1997, two flight units of the Data Management System (DMS-R ) for the Service Module of the Russian Segment of the International S pace Station were handed over by ESA to the Russian Space Agency (RKA) for use by RSC Energia, the prime contractor for the Service Module a nd the entire Russian Segment. The Data Management System was develope d and manufactured in Europe by an industrial team led by Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) in Bremen, Germany, under a contract placed by ESA's Directorate of Manned Spaceflight and Microgravity in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The project is governed by a cooperative agreement betwee n ESA and RKA. This is the first delivery of ESA flight hardware withi n the International Space Station Programme to another International P artner, It will be launched with the station's third assembly flight, in December 1998.