Manned deep-space missions require such large vehicle masses in Earth orbit that orbital support operations such as assembly, maintenance, fueling, checkout, and launch of deep-space ships are necessary; mass and cost burden rates associated with orbital preparation of space vehicles for departure on specific missions are derived and major system parameters and their sensitivities defined; representative values for burden rates are given in dimensionless graphs with orbital departure mass and number of ships leaving as parameters; it is shown that they can be of same orders of magnitude as minimum mass and cost required to place space vehicle departure mass in orbit.
Orbital burden rates for manned space missions
J Spacecraft Rockets
Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets ; 1 , n 6
1964
7 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Orbital burden rates for manned space missions
AIAA | 1964
|Scheduling manned space flight missions.
NTRS | 1966
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