This paper describes an approach for creating space transportation architectures that are affordable, productive, and sustainable. The architectural scope includes both flight and ground system elements, and focuses on their compatibility to achieve a technical solution that is operationally productive, and also affordable throughout its life cycle. Previous papers by the authors and other members of the Space Propulsion Synergy Team (SPST) focused on space flight system engineering methods, along with operationally efficient propulsion system concepts and technologies. This paper follows up previous work by using a structured process to derive examples of conceptual architectures that integrate a number of advanced concepts and technologies. The examples are not intended to provide a near-term alternative architecture to displace current near-term design and development activity. Rather, the examples demonstrate an approach that promotes early investments in advanced system concept studies and trades (flight and ground), as well as in advanced technologies with the goal of enabling highly affordable, productive flight and ground space transportation systems.


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    Titel :

    Approach to an Affordable and Productive Space Transportation System


    Beteiligte:
    C. M. McCleskey (Autor:in) / R. E. Rhodes (Autor:in) / R. A. Lepsch (Autor:in) / E. M. Henderson (Autor:in) / J. W. Robinson (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2012


    Format / Umfang :

    45 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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