NASA will provide the overall mission management, spacecraft bus, telescope, launch services and other mission-related items.

The spacecraft bus carries the payload.

The space segment consists of a spacecraft bus and an electro-optical payload.

All BS satellites were of the same basic configuration: 3-axis stabilization of a rectangular spacecraft bus with two elongated solar arrays.

They are responsible for developing and building the spacecraft element, which includes both the spacecraft bus and sunshield.

Once launched in 2015, the spacecraft bus is expected to reach Mercury in 2019.

A satellite bus or spacecraft bus is the general model on which multiple-production satellite spacecraft are often based.

Trajectory corrections will be made using a set of eight 10 N thrusters, one attached to each corner of the spacecraft bus.

The service module is the equivalent to the spacecraft bus assembly on unmanned spacecraft.

The Orbital Sciences Corporation manufactured the spacecraft bus and was the location for spacecraft environmental testing.