L24 - NewSpace

Question 1

What are the different regimes for NewSpace companies?

Answer 1

Suborbital
Orbital
Deep Space

Question 2

Define the Suborbital experience.

Answer 2

100km (62 miles)
Not enough speed to get to orbit
$200k Virgin Galactic
$95k XCOR
MIcrogravity (around 4min)
Upper Atmospheric Measurements
Technology Demonstration
Life Science Experiments
Point to Point Travel (not the focus yet)

Question 3

Define the Orbital experience.

Answer 3

LEO (160-2000km)
HEO (Geo 35,786km)
Touristic trip to ISS or other
Space Adventures: 7 tourists/8 trips/20-40M$
Experiments for long periods of time (life science & microgravity)
Service Satellites (put in proper orbit, refuel, fix and upgrade)

Question 4

Define the Deep Space experience.

Answer 4

Lagrange points, moon, asteroid, mars...
Inspiration Mars Foundation
$750M per seat to moon
In-Space Economy
Developing new material and processes
Mining and in-situ resources utilization
3D printing in space
Settlement

Question 5

Describe Zero2Infinity.

Answer 5

Balloon 36km, 2h, 25s microgravity
Microbloon: 500kg, 4 windows
Minibloon: 1 Human
Bloon: 6 Humans (4 clients, 2 crew)
$150k per seat

Question 6

Describe XCOR Aerospace.

Answer 6

Lynx Mark I: Trainer test version
Lynx Mark II: Production version, 4 flights/day
Lynx Mark III: External dorsal pod (650kg) or upper stage
1 passenger, 1 pilot per flight
$95k seat

Question 7

Describe virgin Galactic.

Answer 7

White Night Two launches SpaceShip Two
6 passengers + 2 pilots or 600kg payload
$200k seat
Launcher One: Launch small aircraft into orbit, 225kg to LEO or 100kg into higher altitude SUn-Synchronous

Question 8

Describe Blue Origin.

Answer 8

New Shepard system, rocket powered vertical take off and vertical landing, reusable first stage and reusable capsule.
3+ passengers

Question 9

Describe Nanoracks.

Answer 9

Research platforms on ISS
NR-1, NR-2 plug and play (32 payloads/NR)
Cubesat form factor
NR-3 to come in 2014

Question 10

Describe Bigelow Aerospace.

Answer 10

Expandable space habitats
GENESIS I: 2006, 4.4m (L); 2.54m (D) Demo.
GENESIS II: 2007, same
BEAM: Bigelow Expandable Activity Module
2015, Falcon 9; 4m (L); 3m (D); $17.8M
BA330: Commercial station, 330m3
Alpha Station: 2 BA (late 2016)
$25Mfor 110m3 for 2 months, trip: $26.25M (dragon), $36.75M (CST-100)

Question 11

Describe SpaceX.

Answer 11

Falcon 1: 2 stages, liquid fuel, retired.
Falcon 9: 2 stages, 13.15t LEO, 4.85t GTO
Falcon Heavy: biggest in world, 53t LEO, $86M for 6.4t to GTO
Dragon: 6t upmass, 3t downmass, 7 crew

Question 12

Describe Moon Express.

Answer 12

MoonEx-1: Land, move 500m, send back image/video
MoonEx-2: land on south pole, explore resources
50 to 400kg in future iterations
$3M/kg down to $1M/kg over time

Question 13

Describe Golden Spike.

Answer 13

Existing launchers + new Moon landers
Automated trips
Test flights in 2017, start in 2020
Indigogo - Objective: $240k
capacity: 2 people
$750M/seat for trip to the moon

Question 14

Describe Planetary Ressources.

Answer 14

Mine asteroids for water (fuel) and rare metals.
Arkyd Series 100: LEO Space Telescope
Arkyd Series 200: Interceptor (added propulsion and scientific instruments)
Arkyd Series 300: Rendez-vous prospector, for distant asteroids.

Question 15

What is the US National Policy on Commercial Space?

Answer 15

Encourage + Facilitate development
Purchase space activities
Refrain from competitive activities
Transfer operational routine functions

Question 16

Why commercial space?

Answer 16

Because NASA spends way too much for the same output. (SpaceX example)
Congress focuses on jobs.

Question 17

What are the NASA programs to stimulate commercial space?

Answer 17

Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTs) 2006
Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) 2009
Flight Opportunities Program 2010 - Suborbital
Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) 2012

Question 18

Describe the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTs) 2006.

Answer 18

$800M
2 new launchers + 2 ISS cargo carriers
Falcon 9 + Dragon capsule success

Question 19

Describe the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) 2009.

Answer 19

Stimulate development of privately operated crew vehicles.

Question 20

Describe the Flight Opportunities Program 2010 - Suborbital.

Answer 20

Flights opportunities for space tech demo and validation.
Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program. (CRuSR) = Steady market for research payloads.
FAST: Facilitate Access to Space Tech = microgravity research.

Question 21

Describe the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) 2012.

Answer 21

– Goals: August 2012 – May 2014
• Advance multiple integrated crew transportation systems
• Commercial Provider investment
• Affordable development costs leading to cost-effective access to LEO
• Develop a Commercial Transportation System capability to LEO that supports a commercial market

Question 22

Describe current areas of Commercial Space Development.

Answer 22

• SpaceX – Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft
– Cargo-$396MNASAinvestment
– 12 Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) flights to ISS, valued at $1.6 billion
– May 2012 – Successfully demonstrated docking at ISS
– October 2012 – CCiCap, First successful commercial resupply to ISS
– March 1, 2013 – Second flight to ISS planned

• Orbital Sciences - Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft – Cargo-$288M NASA investment
– 8 CRS flights to ISS, valued at $1.9 billion

• SpaceX – Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft – $75M NASA (CCDev2) Award
– $440M NASA (CCiCAP) Award

• Sierra Nevada Corporation – Atlas V rocket and Dream Chaser spacecraft – $106M NASA (CCDev2) Award
– $212.5M NASA (CCiCAP) Award

• Boeing – CST-100 Spacecraft – Atlas V rocket and CST-100 spacecraft – $113M NASA (CCDev2) Award
– $460M NASA (CCiCAP) Award

• Blue Origin –
– $22MNASA(CCDev2)Award
– No NASA (CCiCAP) Award

Question 23

What commercial Deep Space areas are developed?

Answer 23

• Google Lunar X-Prize (GLXP) 2007 - 2015
– Twenty- four teams currently in competition for $30M in prizes
– Land a robot on the Moon then travel more than 500m and transmits high definition images and video to Earth
• NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data - Indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contracts totaling up to $30.1M
– AstroboticTechnologyInc.,Pittsburgh,Pa.
– The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, Mass.
– DyneticsInc.,Huntsville,Ala.
– Earthrise Space Inc., Orlando, Fla.
– MoonExpressInc.,SanFrancisco
– Team FREDNET, The Open Space Society, Inc., Huntsville, Ala.

Question 24

What organisations are supporting NewSpace?

Answer 24

• Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
– 1980 founded by the same 3 founders as ISU, to promote space exploration and development.
• National Space Society
– 1987 promotes living in and working in space. The
organization is located in many countries.
• Space Frontier Foundation
– 1988, dedicated to free enterprise and human
settlement of the Solar System
• Space Access Society
– 1992, dedicated to reducing the cost for commercial
access to space.
• Commercial Spaceflight Federation
– 2005, promotes commercial human spaceflight, high levels of safety, and shares best practices and expertise
throughout the industry.