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Spaceport Operations Assessment for Space Solar Power Earth to Orbit Transportation Requirements
Overview This paper presents a spaceport-focused operations assessment within the context of Earth to Orbit (ETO) transportation requirements to support a major Space Solar Power (SSP) satellite deployment initiative. These requirements include the delivery of over 15,000 metric tons to orbit per year at prices to the SSP system developer of only $400/kg (approx. $181 per pound). The highly reusable space transportation systems optimized around this overriding objective will be described. This process of optimization has included not only the flight vehicles, but just as importantly, the interaction of a flight system with its ground infrastructure (the spaceport). Modeled interactions included the flight vehicle’s facilities and ground support equipment requirements and costs resulting from ground operations (processing labor, replacement hardware items, propellants, etc).
| Publisher | NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | October 1999 | Downloads | 2 |
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