Werner looks at the coming satellite manufacturing revolution. Lockheed insists that an entirely new approach is no longer a far off dream. The revolution will start with the frame and subsystems including power propulsion and communications gear, collectively called the bus. Lockheed Martin engineers don't plan to build a satellite's advanced optics or electronics on additive machines, but they do envision a turntable surrounded by lite or alternatively a customer could reduce the spacecraft's overall mass to reduce launch costs, given that rocket providers charge customers partly by the weight of their spacecraft.
Reimagining satelite construction
Aerospace America ; 53 , 3
2015
Article (Journal)
English
Reimagining satellite construction
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