The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Office of the Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (AST) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) endeavors to foster a healthy commercial space launch capability in the United States. An important element of these efforts is to establish the commercial space industry's view of future space launch requirements. Since 1993, the DOT has requested that its industry advisory group, the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC), prepare and maintain a commercial spacecraft launch demand mission model. This report presents the 1998 update of the worldwide commercial geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) satellite mission model for the period 1998 through 2010. It is based on market forecasts obtained in early 1998 from major spacecraft manufacturers, satellite operators and launch service providers. The mission model is limited to addressable payloads only (i.e., payloads open to internationally competed launch service procurements). Payloads captive to any launch systems are excluded from the mission model. Note that the number of projected vehicle launches per year is a subset of this payload launch demand forecast due to the potential for multiple manifesting of satellites on launch vehicles. Also, low-earth orbit (LEO) and medium-earth orbit (MEO) payloads are not included in this mission model. The FAA/AST develops the LEO/MEO market forecasts in a separate report using a different forecast methodology.
Commercial Spacecraft Mission Model Update, May 1998
1998
44 pages
Report
No indication
English
Space Technology , Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Air Transportation , Space transportation systems , Launch vehicles , Forecasting , Market research , Payload , Commercial spacecraft , Models , Earth orbits , Missions , Space industrialization , Space commercialization , Artificial satellites , Commercial space transportation
Commercial Spacecraft Mission Model Update
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