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Topic: Space Station payload ops, increment patches
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JBoe Member Posts: 995 From: Edgewater, MD Registered: Oct 2012
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posted 12-13-2015 08:39 AM
I have found several Space Station Payload Operations, Payload, and Increment patches. These patches are the first I've seen of and would like to know more about them. I'm assuming these patches were made while the construction of the International Space Station occurred. Thanks again!
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Kevin T. Randall Member Posts: 1623 From: Chesham, Bucks UK Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 12-26-2015 07:59 AM
It has been extremely difficult to find out any information about these ISS Payload Operations patches and pins. It is unknown if these patches and pins are official NASA ones, or privately commissioned. Whichever it was, they only produced these patches and pins in small numbers, just for the design team working on the construction of the International Space Station. Hence why these patches and pins have not been seen or recorded before. It looks like the patches started from ISS Payload Increment Operations number 6, and went on from there, 7, 8, 9, X, 11, 12, 13, 14, XV, 16, 17, 18, 19/20, 21/22. (There are patches and pins for Ops-23/24, Ops-25/26, Ops-27/28 and beyond?) It also looks like, at least the later patches were manufactured by AB Emblem. This is because the Ops-21/22 patch has their product number 159287 and date code 12/09 16 embedded label on the back of it. None of the preceding Operations patches have those embedded labels on them. (But that doesn't mean they weren't manufactured by AB Emblem). |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 53195 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-28-2015 10:46 AM
A friend of mine is a PayCom (similar role to a CapCom but for payloads on the space station) at Marshall Space Flight Center. I asked her about these patches: Yes, I have seen and have most of them. We have Increment Lead teams designated for each pair of increments and many of those patches are designs made to commemorate those missions. Others are general Payload Ops patches designed by folks in the POIC [Payload Operations Integration Center]. |
Kevin T. Randall Member Posts: 1623 From: Chesham, Bucks UK Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 12-28-2015 08:15 PM
How nice it is to know people on the inside who can shed some more light on these very interesting patches and pins. I would love to see the complete set of these ISS Payload Operations patches and pins. |
James913 Member Posts: 331 From: Houston, TX Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 08-21-2018 02:46 AM
I can add some info here – yes, there are Payload Ops patches and pins for all of the early ISS increments. Here are the 1 to 7 patches (with 6 already shown above). These all had pins of the same design. (These patches aren't shown in the proper scale to one another – e.g., the increment 0/1 patch is 4 inches in diameter while the increment 2 patch is only 2x4 inches.)If you get the chance, you might want to display these with the Payload Operations and Integration Center patch below – this is the facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center that coordinates and runs payload ops on the ISS. I worked in the POIC (also known as the Huntsville Operations Support Center) for STS-35 (Astro-1) back in the Spacelab days before ISS, but we didn't have patches back then for individual HOSC/POIC missions.
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Kevin T. Randall Member Posts: 1623 From: Chesham, Bucks UK Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 08-21-2018 09:15 AM
Many thanks James for this information and the photos you posted above.Just to confirm the patch sizes above are as follows; - Payload Operations Increment 0/1 The Early Birds... 4" diameter round.
- ISS Payload Operations Increment 2 is 4" x 2" oval.
- ISS Payload Ops Increment 3 is 4" x 3.5" rectangular.
- MSFC Space Station Payload Operations Inc. 4 is 3.5" x 3.5" square.
- ISS Payload Operations UF-2 V (5) 9A is 4" diameter round.
- ISS Payload Ops Increment 6 is 3.9" x 3.9" pentagon.
- ISS Payload Operations 7 2003 is 4" x 2.5" oval.
- Payload Operations and Integration Program patch is 3.5" diameter round.
The other patches in this set are now mostly confirmed as to their sizes. They are;- Payload Operations and Integration Increment 8 is 3.5" x 4" oval.
- Space Station Payload Operations 9 is 4" x 2.5" irregular oval.
- Payload Operations ISS X (10) is 4" x 2.5" rectangular.
- ISS Payload Operations 11 Huntsville, AL is 3.2" x 4" rectangular.
- Payload Operations Expedition 12 is 3.5" diameter round.
- Payload Operations 13 is 3.4" x 2.8" irregular oval.
- ISS Payload Operations Huntsville XIV (14) is 3.2" x 4" spear.
- Payload Operations XV (15) is 3.5"x 3.2" rectangular.
- ISS Payload Operations Increment 16 is 3" x 3.9" irregular oval.
- Payloads ISS 17 is 4" x 4" pentagon.
- Space Station Payloads Expedition 18 is 3.7" x 3.8" (leaning square).
- ISS Payload Operations 19/20 is 4.7"x 2.9" Irregular.
- ISS Payload Operations 21/22 is 4.2"x 3.3" Irregular (159287 12/0916).
- ISS Payload Operations 23/24 (not seen)
- ISS Payload Operations 25/26 is 4.6"x 3.3" Irregular (175144 03.1116).
- ISS Payload Operations 27/28 is 3.4" x 2.5" rectangular (185615 10 11 04).
- ISS Payload Operations 29/30 (not seen).
- ISS Payload Operations 10 Years is 4.5" diameter round (175768 0201016).
- Space Ops 2010 Huntsville (the possible 4" diameter patch not seen yet, only seen the pins).
All the above listed patches have equivalent pins available for each of them. |
Kevin T. Randall Member Posts: 1623 From: Chesham, Bucks UK Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 09-14-2024 09:24 AM
AB Emblem have just re-issued the 3.5" version to a round 4" size Payload Operations and Integration Program patch, as shown above (the bottom right hand patch). They have also issued the following new four Payload Operations and Integration patches, they are;
The Payload Operations Integration Center POIC) at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the heartbeat for space station research operation. As NASA's primary space station science command post, the payload operations team coordinates all U.S. scientific and commercial experiments on the station, synchronizes payload activities of international partners, and directs communications between researchers around the world and their on-board experiments. POIC provides a one-stop-shop infrastructure supporting customers' mission needs with everything from command and telemetry to voice, video, and storage.The payload operations team integrates research timelines and requirements, schedules ground and crew training, plans the orbital research schedule, and ensures missions and experiments are safely executed. During each six-month space station research expedition, controllers manage payload resources on station, handle science communications with the crew,and oversee all transmissions to and from the orbiting research center. They process hundreds of payload commands in support of investigations each day and continuously monitor the health and status of scientific instruments deployed on the space station. POIC has a proven history of conducting end-to-end mission operations for science payloads in low-Earth orbit and is capitalizing on this experience to be able to support missions in cis lunar space, on the lunar surface and beyond. |
Kevin T. Randall Member Posts: 1623 From: Chesham, Bucks UK Registered: Dec 2008
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posted 09-24-2024 04:44 AM
I received from AB Emblem my order for the five new ISS Payload Operations Integration patches. They are in the following sizes, and have the following details on the embedded labels; - Payload Ops 69 - 4" round 466086 A-B Emblem Made In China 08/2440
- Payload Ops 70 - 4.8"x 4.4" five pointed star 469072 A-B Emblem Made In China 08/2440
- Payload Ops 71 - 4" round 466091 A-B Emblem Made In China 08/2440
- Payload Ops 72 - 4.6"x 4.6" diamond shape 469595 A-B Emblem Made In China 08/2440
- Payload Operations and Integration program 4" round 470099 A-B Emblem Made In China 09/2440
I am hoping that more of these Payload Operations patches will appear in due coarse? Like the missing older patches from Ops.11, 23/24, 29/30, 31 through to Ops. 68, and the future patches from Ops.73 onwards? | |
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