The NASA space station has the potential to provide significant economic benefits to commercial communications satellite operators. The initial reports quantified the benefits of space-based activities and assessed the impacts on the satellite design and the space station. Results are given for the following additional tasks: quantify the value of satellite retrievability operations and define its operational aspects; evaluate the use of expendable launch vehicles for transportation of satellites from the Earth to the space station; and quantify the economic value of modular satellites that are assembled and serviced in space.
Communications Satellite Systems Operations with the Space Station. Volume 3. Supplementary Technical Report. Final Report, February-December 1987
1988
221 pages
Report
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Englisch