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P C Galeone·L Szatkowski·O H Bradley·R Trucco·B Musetti
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SAGE III (Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment), an Earth-observation instrument developed by NASA's Langley Research Center (LaRC), was one of the first scientific external payloads selected for the International Space Station. It was conceived to fly on a spacecraft able to provide +/- 1 degree pointing accuracy. Since the ISS's attitude can vary by several degrees over a long period, it was therefore necessary to provide a dedicated nadir-pointing system. For this task, NASA selected the hexapod-based pointing system ("Hexapod" for short) included by ESA in the list of proposed European contributions to the ISS early utilisation phase. Launch is currently scheduled with assembly flight UF-3, although this could be modified by revisions in the ISS assembly sequence.

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P C Galeone, L Szatkowski, O H Bradley, R Trucco, B Musetti. 2002. Hexapod.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14503498/

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