Abstract
This paper presents the concept of the ATP (Advanced Technology Platform) which is a co-orbiting platform planned to be launched in 1995. The ATP has two major objectives. One is to establish the advanced technologies essential to the future space platforms. The other is to conduct autonomous and in-orbit serviceable space experiments. To meet the various mission demands and to attain the high performance, the ATP adopts modular design, in-orbit servicing capability and advanced subsystem technologies. As subsystem technologies for the ATP, rendezvous-docking, two phase fluid loop thermal control and retractable flexible solar array are under development. The mission profile of the ATP is divided into two phases. Many space experiments such as material processing are conducted after the technology demonstration mission.
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