Add to ORKGThe development of commercial launch systems has substantially reduced the cost of space launch. NASA's Space Shuttle had a cost of about $1.5 billion to launch 27,500 kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), $54,500/kg. SpaceX's Falcon 9 now advertises a cost of $62 million to launch 22,800 kg to LEO, $2,720/kg. Space launch costs were very high for decades, typically about $20,000/kg, and it was understood that this high launch cost made it necessary for long human missions to recycle water and oxygen to reduce logistics mass. Short missions such as Apollo or Shuttle used stored and resupplied life support materials, but for a much longer mission such as the International Space Station (ISS), recycling saves logistics mass and reduces launch cost. Th...
As NASA looks beyond the International Space Station toward long-duration, deep space missions away ...
Cost-effective high reliability can be achieved in future space life support systems through careful...
As NASA looks beyond the International Space Station toward long-duration, deep space missions away ...
For decades, the high cost of space launch has been the greatest limiting factor on the nu ber and s...
The development of commercial launch systems has substantially reduced the cost of space launch. NAS...
Brief human space missions supply all the crew's water and oxygen from Earth. The multiyear Internat...
Space operations are very costly. This simple state mentis widely accepted as true and is the major...
Expanded space utilization for exploration or exploitation has been stymied partially by the high co...
The goal of deep reductions in the cost of access to space should receive much greater priority, ene...
The Commercial Space Transportation Study (CSTS) suggests that considerable market expansion in eart...
To be economically viable, the operations cost of launch vehicles must be reduced by an order of mag...
The high cost of access to space has been a problem since the beginning of the space age. Most atte...
Many programs presented at prior USU meetings have been exceptionally successful at reducing the cos...
The paper introduces an innovative Life-Cycle Cost Estimation Methodology for future reusable access...
The 1990s initiated the era of “Faster, Better, Cheaper” for small spacecraft, and met with mixed su...
As NASA looks beyond the International Space Station toward long-duration, deep space missions away ...
Cost-effective high reliability can be achieved in future space life support systems through careful...
As NASA looks beyond the International Space Station toward long-duration, deep space missions away ...
For decades, the high cost of space launch has been the greatest limiting factor on the nu ber and s...
The development of commercial launch systems has substantially reduced the cost of space launch. NAS...
Brief human space missions supply all the crew's water and oxygen from Earth. The multiyear Internat...
Space operations are very costly. This simple state mentis widely accepted as true and is the major...
Expanded space utilization for exploration or exploitation has been stymied partially by the high co...
The goal of deep reductions in the cost of access to space should receive much greater priority, ene...
The Commercial Space Transportation Study (CSTS) suggests that considerable market expansion in eart...
To be economically viable, the operations cost of launch vehicles must be reduced by an order of mag...
The high cost of access to space has been a problem since the beginning of the space age. Most atte...
Many programs presented at prior USU meetings have been exceptionally successful at reducing the cos...
The paper introduces an innovative Life-Cycle Cost Estimation Methodology for future reusable access...
The 1990s initiated the era of “Faster, Better, Cheaper” for small spacecraft, and met with mixed su...
As NASA looks beyond the International Space Station toward long-duration, deep space missions away ...
Cost-effective high reliability can be achieved in future space life support systems through careful...
As NASA looks beyond the International Space Station toward long-duration, deep space missions away ...