The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization questions the use of traditional weight-based spacecraft cost models developed by the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The concern is motivated by changes in satellite designs of future systems where smaller but more capable spacecraft are being built. IDA developed spacecraft functional (engineering and manufacturing) cost-estimating relationships (CERs) at the spacecraft subsystem level using performance and physical characteristics that are not primarily weight-based. We developed nonrecurring (design, development, and test) and recurring (production) CERs for the spacecraft bus, including ground support equipment, and for communications payloads. The CERs show that programmatic aspects, which reflect the requirements and acquisition environments that the satellites were acquired under, have considerable influence on satellite costs.
Functional Cost-Estimating Relationships for Spacecraft
1996
82 pages
Report
No indication
English
Unmanned Spacecraft , Missile Tracking Systems , Missile Guidance & Control Systems , Business & Economics , Cost estimates , Ballistic missile intercept systems , Military satellites , Payload , Systems engineering , Attitude control systems , Management planning and control , Manufacturing , Life expectancy(Service life) , Survivability , Production engineering , Cost models , Launching , Power supplies , Satellite communications , Systems analysis , Guided missile defense systems , Design criteria , Ground support equipment , Communication satellites , Design to cost , Reconnaissance satellites , Telemeter systems , Space based
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