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The COMmercial Experiment Transporter (COMET) is a satellite will launch aboard the Conestoga rocket. COMET provides the United States Commercial research and development community with a dependable and economical means to access space. The COMET program is defined and funded by the NASA Centers for the Commercial Development of Space (CCDS). The Center of Space Transportation and Applied Research (CSTAR) was given the authority to establish and implement the COMET program. The COMET Service Module is designed, integrated and tested by Defense Systems Incorporated for Westinghouse Commercial Space. The Capillary Pumped Loop (CPL) was integrated into the Service Module by OAO Corporation for Defense Systems Incorporated. The Service Module's primary function is to carry payloads to space, providing them with utilities such as a tightly controlled thermal environment, electrical power, attitude control, data management, and communications while in orbit.