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Forum: Space Places
Topic: Astro Restoration (USSRC and Smithsonian)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 02-02-2023 02:39 PM The Astro Restoration Project is seeking help seeking part of the payload: <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]We are contacting your organization in regards to potentially helping us locate a missing element of the Astro payload called the "Integrated Radiator System (IRS)". This is a mechanical structure that was used for housing various avionics boxes on a large "L" shaped structure with a silver reflective tape covered radiator utilizing heat-pipes for passive thermal control (see attached graphics/pictures). <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/astro-irs-inquiry01-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/astro-irs-inquiry01.jpg" width="400" height="434" border="0"></a></center> Approximate dimensions are 40"h x 67"w x 40"d, with a weight approximately 500 lbs. The shipping container was steel, painted white with metal structure around the exterior. It would add approximately 200 lbs. so the overall weight in shipping container is approximately 700 lbs. It was likely excessed from NASA in the late 90's through auction or other disposition. It may have been shipped/stored in a large transportation crate when excessed. Other relevant information to identify it: IRS Structural Assembly F5-31017-1 (This I what it should have been shipped as, in its de-integrated state) and/or IRS Assembly F5-31047-1. To-date, we have been unsuccessful in tracking down its final disposition. <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/astro-irs-inquiry02-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/astro-irs-inquiry02.jpg" width="400" height="311" border="0"></a></center> We are reaching out to see if your organization potentially knows the whereabouts of the IRS, or could recommend other search paths. We recognize that this item may have been dispositioned and sadly turned into scrap metal. However; we wish to do full due diligence on exhausting all leads before we give up hope on finding this flown spaceflight element. Please <a href="mailto:michael.haddad@astrorestorationproject.org" target="AirLock">let us know</a> if you have any information about this item. Thank you for your time and help.[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE> <center><a href="http://www.collectspace.com/review/astro-irs-inquiry03-lg.jpg" target="AirLock"><img src="http://www.collectspace.com/review/astro-irs-inquiry03.jpg" width="400" height="551" border="0"></a></center>
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