This paper examines piggybacking NASA, university, and industry payloads on commercial geosynchronous satellites. NASA's RSDO Office awarded Geo Quick Ride (GQR) study contracts in 1998 to spacecraft manufactures to examine the issues with flying secondary payloads. The study results were very promising. Commercial communication satellites have frequent flights and significant unused resources that could be used to fly secondary payloads. However, manifesting secondary payloads on a commercial revenue-generating satellite is a complex problem to solve. The solution requires multiple simultaneous approaches in order to be successful. There are business, economic, technical, schedule, and organizational issues to be resolved. This paper examines the Geo Quick Ride (GQR) concept, discusses the development issues, and describes how this concept solves many of these issues.


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    Title :

    Geo Quick Ride (GQR) Program: Providing Inexpensive and Frequent Access to Space


    Contributors:
    R. Caffrey (author) / J. Baniszewski (author)

    Publication date :

    2004


    Size :

    6 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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