The purpose of this study was to determine what cost advantages were likely to result from adoption of a Hub Spaceport operations strategy for RLV flight operations. The study found that launch cost reductions of 14% to 25% could result from basing RLV flight operations at a Hub Spaceport. The savings resuiting from more efficient utilization of RLVs was found to be greater than the savings resulting from eliminating the second launch facility.


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    Title :

    The Cost Advantages of Basing RLV Flight Operations at a Hub Spaceport


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Sixth ASCE Specialty Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space ; 1998 ; Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States


    Published in:

    Space 98 ; 203-209


    Publication date :

    1998-04-21




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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