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...

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...