The basis for this study was the perception held worldwide by government and industry that: (1) significant untapped markets exist or could be created if the costs for access to space could be reduced by an order of magnitude or more; (2) a new launch system can provide this order of magnitude reduction in launch costs; and (3) a reduction of that magnitude will cause the equivalent of a space industrial revolution with a tremendous increase in users and traffic. The conjecture is often stated but has never been proved. Phase 1 of the study identifies those new users and catagorizes their prospective payloads. Once the business opportunity has been identified, the best prospective launch system can be determined and the required technologies put in place. This is the linkage between phase 1 and the proposed phases 2 and 3.
Commercial Space Transportation Study (CSTS)
1994
655 pages
Report
No indication
English
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