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.


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    Title :

    Orbital burden rates for manned space missions


    Additional title:

    J Spacecraft Rockets


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    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


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