The NASA space station has the potential to provide significant economic benefits to commercial communications satellite operators. The initial reports quantified the benefits of space-based activities and assessed the impacts on the satellite design and the space station. Results are given for the following additional tasks: quantify the value of satellite retrievability operations and define its operational aspects; evaluate the use of expendable launch vehicles for transportation of satellites from the Earth to the space station; and quantify the economic value of modular satellites that are assembled and serviced in space.


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    Title :

    Communications Satellite Systems Operations with the Space Station. Volume 3. Supplementary Technical Report. Final Report, February-December 1987


    Contributors:
    K. M. Price (author) / P. Russell (author) / C. Weyandt (author)

    Publication date :

    1988


    Size :

    221 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English