What does ORU stand for?

Orbital Replacement Unit

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Mission STS-129 will deliver 15 spare parts (12 of which built or supplied by Boeing) known as Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs), which will equip the station with its own home improvement store, stocked with parts for the station's electrical, plumbing, air conditioning, communications, and robotics systems.

United States: Boeing to supply large spare parts for the ISS

The LAPA will be used to transport Large Orbital Replacement Units such as pump modules to the International Space Station (ISS).

Teledyne Awarded $5 Million Space Hardware Contract

The CMC team also supports the ISS strategy of prepositioning external Orbital Replacement Units on orbit to ensure operations post shuttle retirement including design, build and integration of flight support equipment.

United States: Lockheed Martin Receives $42 Million Extension on ...

United States : Lockheed Martin Receives $42 Million Extension on ...

Cargo items include scientific payloads, ISS crew-related items, ISS vehicle logistics hardware, and Orbital Replacement Units critical to maintaining the ISS in orbit.

Teledyne Wins NASA Space Station Cargo Mission Contract

The JPM has a small scientific airlock through which exposed experiments, or orbital replacement units (ORUs), can be transferred between the Kibo pressurized and unpressurized facilities.

United States: Astronauts To Enter Kibo Today

SS/L will provide a total of 48 Battery Orbital Replacement Units (ORU), 24 Battery Charge Discharge Units (BCDU), and eight Sequential Shunt Units (SSU) for the final on-orbit configuration of the Space Station.

Space Systems/Loral Power Equipment for Space Station to be Launched ...

Under this contract, Communication Systems-East will establish and maintain the processes, procedures, and facilities required to perform depot repairs and hardware upgrades to International Space Station Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs) returned from on- orbit service.

L-3 Communications Receives Contract From Boeing for International ...