posted 03-12-2015 06:11 PM               

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Please use this topic to discuss Lockheed Martin's proposed Jupiter and Exoliner system for commercial resupply services.

posted 03-12-2015 06:14 PM               

Additional imagery courtesy Lockheed Martin via Aviation Week.

The Italian-built module would remain berthed at ISS for the crew to unload and refill with trash. It would be discarded for destructive reentry after several months, and replaced with a fresh load of cargo arriving in a new module delivered by the Jupiter.

...Lockheed Martin has made a “very substantial” but unspecified investment in the project, Crocker says. A win in the CRS-2 competition will hasten the development, including the addition of solar-electric propulsion for missions beyond LEO, but the team plans to continue the work with or without the ISS cargo contract, he says.