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When ESA developed its vision for activities in space in the new millennium and devised the In-Orbit-Infrastructure (IOI) to realise the plans involved, Hermes was just a means to an end. It would be servicing the various platforms that were part of the IOI, which would be expanding in both size and ambition. Eventually, it was to include a European Manned Space Infrastructure: an independent and permanently manned space station achieved through the expansion of the initial elements.
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van den Abeelen, L. (2017). In Orbit Infrastructure: Platforms and Space Stations. In: Spaceplane HERMES. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44472-7_21
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