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ritage and a successful mission history. The underlying goal is to gain flight heritage of the SpaceMast system and the demonstration of featured functionalities in real space environment. The host spacecraft/OTV shall be able to change orbits and altitudes, provide power, data up and down-link, and control in terms of activating the Camera SpaceMast system, as an OTV (orbital transfer vehicle) would do. Payload Description: The payload “Camera SpaceMast System” shall be flown in a hosted configuration and can be considered roughly as a block volume with rectangular dimensions. The system consists of five major components: 1. The Stationary Mast Deployment Unit with included mechanisms, 2. the Deployable Composite Mast, 3. the Camera Box, housing camera and electronics, 4. the electrical Drive Motor operating the mechanisms 5. and the Electronics Compartment The main function of the Camera SpaceMast system is to deploy its camera several meters away from the host spacecraft/OTV/OTV and taking images or videos of it or other payloads, from a wider view angle. This is achieved by deploying the Deployable Composite Mast, as the Camera Box is mounted to its tip. A second function is the retraction of mast and camera. The Deployable Composite Mast itself is flattened and rolled up for stowage, and pushed out of the Stationary Mas