System Analyses and Feasibility Studies for Hyper-OSV (Orbital Servicing Vehicle)

To realize practical orbital servicing missions in 21 century, we have developed the new system concept for the orbital servicing vehicle named Hyper-OSV (Orbital Servicing Vehicle), which has higher speed manipulation capability and larger operation area than OSVs that were proposed in 1990’s. The main feature of Hyper-OSV (HOSV) is the separation of the operation function and the long-term in-orbit surviving functions such as a solar power paddle and a large communication antenna. This releases HOSV from the attitude restriction and flexible dynamics and brings a large operation area. The second feature of HOSV is the reconfigurable function which arrows HOSV to apply various orbital servicing missions. The third feature is that HOSV is designed to be compact and high performance by using advanced electronics. This paper presents the system concept, system design results and feasibility studies of HOSV.