MCE

MCE [JAXA]

The MCE (Multi-mission Consolidated Equipment) is an experimental payload serving on the International Space Station (ISS)

MCE contains following two scientific (ISS-IMAP and JEM-GLISM) and three engineering experiments (SIMPLE, REXJ and HDTV):

• ISS-IMAP: ISS Ionosphere, Mesosphere, upper Atmosphere, and Plasmasphere mapper. The IMAP payload is a visible light spectrometer that examines the energy and plasma activity and related global transportation near the rim of atmosphere.
• JEM-GLISM (Global Lightning and Sprite Measurement). GLISM looks at the spatial distribution of lightning and plasma phenomena and their discharge characteristics throughout the atmosphere during night passes.
• SIMPLE (Space Inflatable Membranes Pioneering Long-term Experiments) seeks to collect engineering data in orbit for inflatable space structures
• REX-J (Robot Experiment on JEM) demonstrates realtime ground control of a robotic system by providing validation data during robotic manipulation.
• HDTV (High Definition Television Camera System) is a high resolution TV camera that acquires data for evaluating how long a COTS-HDTV survives in the orbit environment for development of future Space HDRV systems.

The MCE launched to the ISS on a Japanese HTV 3 (Kounotori 3), and was transferred and installed via Extravehicular Robotics (EVR) on the JEF (JEM-EF) exposed facility of the Japanese JEM module.