Some insight is provided into the advanced transportation planning and systems that will evolve to support long term mission requirements. The general requirements include: launch and lift capacity to low earth orbit (LEO); space based transfer systems for orbital operations between LEO and geosynchronous equatorial orbit (GEO), the Moon, and Mars; and Transfer vehicle systems for long duration deep space probes. These mission requirements are incorporated in the NASA Civil Needs Data Base. To accomplish these mission goals, adequate lift capacity to LEO must be available: to support science and application missions; to provide for construction of the Space Station Freedom; and to support resupply of personnel and supplies for its operations. Growth in lift capacity must be time phased to support an expanding mission model that includes Freedom Station, the Mission to Planet Earth, and an expanded robotic planetary program. The near term increase in cargo lift capacity associated with development of the Shuttle-C is addressed. The joint DOD/NASA Advanced Launch System studies are focused on a longer term new cargo capability that will significantly reduce costs of placing payloads in space.
NASA's Advanced Space Transportation System Launch Vehicles
1991
28 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Rocket Engines & Motors , Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Advanced launch system (Sts) , Heavy lift launch vehicles , Launch vehicle configurations , Space probes , Space stations , Spacecraft design , Cost reduction , Data bases , Deep space , Earth orbits , Geosynchronous orbits , Mission planning , Robotics , Space transportation system
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