This button marking the launch of the Payload Assist Module (PAM) in 1982 was owned by John Bickers, a Public Affairs representative for the McDonnell Company (later McDonnell Douglas), an aerospace ...

Object Details Summary This button marking the launch of the Payload Assist Module (PAM) in 1982 was owned by John Bickers, a Public Affairs representative for the McDonnell Company (later McDonnell ...

ASC-1 and AUSSAT-1 both attached to Payload Assist Module-D (PAM-D) motors. SYNCOM IV-4 (also known as LEASAT-4) failed to function after reaching the correct geosynchronous orbit.

This would be one of many attempts to "grapple" the Intelsat VI satellite which was rendered inoperative when its Payload Assist Module (PAM) motor failed to fire thus preventing it from reaching ...

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2016 General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has secured an $18.9 million contract modification from the U.S. Navy for the development of a payload module for the Virginia-class ...

The following October, Ulysses, a probe jointly run by NASA and the European Space Agency, left the shuttle cargo bay with two upper stages—an IUS and a Payload Assist Module—to boost it into ...

It’s still not known as I write this just how close the debris passed. It was a piece of a used booster called a Payload Assist Module, a device used to boost satellites from low Earth orbit up ...