This report reviews major events relating to U.S. commercial space transportation in 2004. Current and planned U.S. commercial and commercially oriented activities are showcased. The Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Commercial Space Transportation (FAA/AST), first published the U.S. Commercial Space Transportation Developments and Concepts: Vehicles, Technologies, and Spaceports in 1998. That edition focused exclusively on RLVs. In addition to reviewing RLVs, this report addresses expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), propulsion technologies, and launch and reentry sites - commonly referred to as spaceports. Space transportation programs and projects that will impact and support the development of commercial space activities and applications are also reviewed.
U.S. Commercial Space Transportation Developments and Concepts: Vehicles, Technologies, and Spaceports, 2005
2005
86 pages
Report
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English
Space Launch Vehicles & Support Equipment , Air Transportation , Common Carrier & Satellite , Launch vehicles , Market research , Space transportation , United States , Forecasts , Space commercialization , Small scientific satellites , Commercial spacecraft , Space industrialization , Spaceports , Space technologies , Commercial space transportation