The purpose of the TA-2 contract was to provide advanced launch vehicle concept definition and analysis to assist NASA in the identification of future launch vehicle requirements. Contracted analysis activities included vehicle sizing and performance analysis, subsystem concept definition, propulsion subsystem definition (foreign and domestic), ground operations and facilities analysis, and life cycle cost estimation. This document is part of the final report for the TA-2 contract. This document, the executive summary, provides a summary description of the technical activities that were performed over the entire contract duration, covering three distinct launch vehicle definition activities: heavy-lift (300,000 pounds injected mass to low Earth orbit) launch vehicles for the First Lunar Outpost (FLO), medium-lift (50,000-80,000 pounds injected mass to low Earth orbit) launch vehicles, and single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) launch vehicles (25,000 pounds injected mass to a Space Station orbit).
Advanced Transportation System Studies Technical Area 2(TA-2): Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle Development
1995
68 pages
Report
No indication
English
Manned Spacecraft , Extraterrestrial Exploration , Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Heavy lift launch vehicles , Launch vehicles , Life cycle costs , Low earth orbits , Space stations , Space transportation , Cost estimates , Ground operational support system , Single stage to orbit vehicles , Spacecraft design