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The Mobile Medical Unit is like a space ambulance/ER. Comes complete with two operating/recovery tables and all the supplies needed to stabilize patients before their extraction. Huge sensor array guides the MMU with uplink to the carrier vessel for increased guidance.
Go-Coach 4503 YJ09 MMU is seen here turning out of Oak Lane and into Sevenoaks High Street whilst working route 8. Saturday 17th September 2022.
Optare Solo M890SL - Optare Solo SR 8.9m Slimline (Ex-ARRIVA Kent Thameside 1506)
Go-Coach 4503 YJ09 MMU is seen parked up at Swanley Garage waiting to start its duty on go2. Sunday 22nd May 2022.
Optare Solo M890SL - Optare Solo SR 8.9m Slimline (Ex-ARRIVA Kent Thameside 1506)
Go-Coach 4503 YJ09 MMU is seen passing over the River Darent on Church Street, Shoreham whilst working route 421. Wednesday 17th April 2019.
Optare Solo M890SL - Optare Solo SR 8.9m Slimline (Ex-ARRIVA Kent Thameside 1506)
Go-Coach 4503 YJ09 MMU is seen on Maple Road, Tree Estate whilst working Dartford Circular route D1. Saturday 23rd February 2019.
Optare Solo M890SL - Optare Solo SR 8.9m Slimline (Ex-ARRIVA Kent Thameside 1506)
Given that the MMU is tracked, surely it's not all that fast. So the Buggy is used to retrieve patients if their condition is too critical to wait for the MMU.
Go-Coach 4503 YJ09 MMU is seen turning off of Eynsford Road and onto Farningham High Street at White Post Corner whilst working route 429. Tuesday 15th May 2018.
Optare Solo M890SL - Optare Solo SR 8.9m Slimline (Ex-ARRIVA Kent Thameside 1506)
ARRIVA Kent Thameside 1506 YJ09 MMU "Dorie Brooker" is seen in Jacobs Lane, Horton Kirby while working route 414. Tuesday 29th May 2012.
Optare Solo SR M890 - Optare
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A4 MMU
2004 Scania R164L 580 Topline
A. Nicklin & Sons, Coventry
British Motor Museum, Gaydon, 12 June 2022
The Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU) is an astronaut propulsion unit that was used by NASA on three Space Shuttle missions in 1984. The MMU allowed the astronauts to perform untethered extravehicular spacewalks at a distance from the shuttle. The MMU was used in practice to retrieve a pair of faulty communications satellites, Westar VI and Palapa B2. Following the third mission the unit was retired from use. A smaller successor, the Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue (SAFER), was first flown in 1994, and is intended for emergency use only.
The MMU was used on three Shuttle missions in 1984. It was first tested on February 7 during mission STS-41-B by astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart. Two months later, during mission STS-41-C, astronauts James van Hoften and George Nelson attempted to use the MMU to capture the Solar Maximum Mission satellite and to bring it into the orbiter's payload bay for repairs and servicing. The plan was to use an astronaut-piloted MMU to grapple the SMM with the Trunion Pin Attachment Device (TPAD) mounted between the hand controllers of the MMU, null its rotation rates, and allow the Shuttle to bring it into the Shuttle's payload bay for stowage. Three attempts to grapple the satellite using the TPAD failed. The TPAD jaws could not lock onto Solar Max because of an obstructing grommet on the satellite not included in the blueprints for the satellite. This led to an improvised plan which nearly ended the satellite's mission. The improvisation had the MMU astronaut use his hands to grab hold of an SMM solar array and null the rates by a push from MMU's thrusters. Instead, this attempt induced higher rates and in multiple axes; the satellite was tumbling out of control and quickly losing battery life. SMM Operations Control Center engineers shut down all non-essential SMM subsystems and with a bit of luck were able to recover the SMM minutes before total failure. The ground support engineers then stabilized the satellite and nulled its rotation rates for capture with the orbiter's robotic arm, the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (SRMS). This proved to be a much better plan. Their successful work increased the lifespan of the satellite.
The Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) is an independent anthropomorphic spacesuit that provides environmental protection, mobility, life support, and communications for astronauts performing extravehicular activity (EVA) in Earth orbit. Introduced in 1981, it is a two-piece semi-rigid suit, and is currently one of two types of EVA spacesuits used by crew members on the International Space Station (ISS), the other being the Russian Orlan space suit. It was used by NASA's Space Shuttle astronauts prior to the end of the Shuttle program in 2011.
The Solar Maximum Mission satellite (or SolarMax) was designed to investigate Solar phenomena, particularly solar flares. It was launched on February 14, 1980. The SMM was the first satellite based on the Multimission Modular Spacecraft bus manufactured by Fairchild Industries, a platform which was later used for Landsats 4 and 5 as well as the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
After an attitude control failure in Nov 1980 it was put in standby mode until April 1984 when it was repaired by a Shuttle mission.
The Solar Maximum Mission ended on December 2, 1989, when the spacecraft re-entered the atmosphere and burned up over the Indian Ocean.
The first orbiting, unmanned satellite to be repaired in space, SMM was notable in that its useful life compared with similar spacecraft was significantly increased by the direct intervention of a manned space mission.
This exhibit was at the 1984 Farnborough Airshow known officially the Farnborough International Airshow, which is a trade exhibition for the aerospace and defence industries, where civilian and military aircraft are demonstrated to potential customers and investors. Since its first show in 1948, Farnborough has seen the debut of many famous planes, including the Vickers VC10, Concorde, the Eurofighter, the Airbus A380, and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. At the 1958 show, the RAF’s Black Arrows executed a 22-plane formation loop, setting a world record.
The international trade show is put together every two years by FIL Farnborough International Ltd. and runs for five days. Formerly, the show ran for a full week with trade visitors attending on the first five days and the weekend reserved for the general public. Programming takes place at the Farnborough Airfield, which lies roughly 50 kilometres south-west of London.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Maneuvering_Unit
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