Affordable In-space transportation / L.A. Curtis [and three others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Curtis, L. A., author.

VanDyke, M. K., author.

Lajoie, R. M., author.

Woodcock, Gordon R., author.

Contributor:

George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, issuing body.

Series:

NASA technical memorandum ; 108521.

NASA technical memorandum ; 108521

Language:

English

Genre:

Technical Memorandum

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 114 pages) : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

MSFC, Alabama : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Marshall Space Flight Center, October 1996.

Summary:

Current and proposed launch systems will provide access to low-Earth orbit (LEO), and destinations beyond LEO, but the cost of delivering payloads will preclude the use of these services by many users. To develop and encourage revolutionary commercial utilization of geosynchronous orbit (GEO) and to provide an affordable means to continue NASA space science and exploration missions, the transportation costs to in-space destinations must be reduced. The principal objective of this study was to conceptually define three to four promising approaches to in-space transportation for delivery of satellites and other payloads, 3,000- to 10,000-lb class, to GEO destinations. This study established a methodology for evaluating in-space transportation systems based on life-cycle cost. The reusable concepts seemed to fare better in the evaluation than expendable, since a major driver in the life-cycle cost was the stage production cost

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Title from title screen (viewed May 6, 2016).

"October 1996."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 40-41).

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OCLC:

703646052