Development and operations in the Dutch utilisation centre

At the early beginning (1989) of implementation of the European User Support Organisation (USO) concept, development and implementation of a Dutch Utilisation Centre (DUC) started at NLR premises. After development of several pilot DUC facilities, DUC participated in a Columbus simulation mission and in the 2nd International Micro-gravity...

Het DAMS project (DUC in APM Mission Simulation) samenvatting

Als onderdeel van de ontwikkeling en evaliratie van 'crew-support tools' en mens-machine interfaces, zijn de afgelopen jaren bij ESTEC in Noordwijk enkele missie-simulaties georganiseerd. Deze simulaties vonden plaats in het 'Crew Workstation Testbed'. Een van de doelstellingen van zo'n simulatie, die gehouden zou worden in mei 1994, was het...

Implementation of USO concept in Crew Workstation testbed activities: Executive Summary

As part of the evaluation of man-machine interfaces for Columbus utilisation, manned mission simulations have been performed for some years in the Crew Workstation Test-Bed at ESTEC, Noordwijk. A mission simulation was scheduled for May 1994, to include new concepts for crew and user support, and to aim at increased realism for payload...

Preparation and demonstration of a support technology concept for in-orbit payload operations

Within the studies on Advanced Man-Machine Interfaces and Crew Support (AMMI&CS), being part of the Crew Workstation Testbed activities at ESTEC, a Dutch consortium is preparing the implementation of the User Support Organisation (USO) concept in a ground-based mission simulation. The objective of the Implementation study is to demonstrate and...