L24 - NewSpace Flashcards
What are the different regimes for NewSpace companies?
Suborbital
Orbital
Deep Space
Define the Suborbital experience.
100km (62 miles) Not enough speed to get to orbit $200k Virgin Galactic $95k XCOR MIcrogravity (around 4min) Upper Atmospheric Measurements Technology Demonstration Life Science Experiments Point to Point Travel (not the focus yet)
Define the Orbital experience.
LEO (160-2000km)
HEO (Geo 35,786km)
Touristic trip to ISS or other
Space Adventures: 7 tourists/8 trips/20-40M$
Experiments for long periods of time (life science & microgravity)
Service Satellites (put in proper orbit, refuel, fix and upgrade)
Define the Deep Space experience.
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
Describe Zero2Infinity.
Balloon 36km, 2h, 25s microgravity Microbloon: 500kg, 4 windows Minibloon: 1 Human Bloon: 6 Humans (4 clients, 2 crew) $150k per seat
Describe XCOR Aerospace.
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
Describe virgin Galactic.
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
Describe Blue Origin.
New Shepard system, rocket powered vertical take off and vertical landing, reusable first stage and reusable capsule.
3+ passengers
Describe Nanoracks.
Research platforms on ISS
NR-1, NR-2 plug and play (32 payloads/NR)
Cubesat form factor
NR-3 to come in 2014
Describe Bigelow Aerospace.
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)
Describe SpaceX.
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
Describe Moon Express.
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
Describe Golden Spike.
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
Describe Planetary Ressources.
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.
What is the US National Policy on Commercial Space?
Encourage + Facilitate development
Purchase space activities
Refrain from competitive activities
Transfer operational routine functions
Why commercial space?
Because NASA spends way too much for the same output. (SpaceX example)
Congress focuses on jobs.
What are the NASA programs to stimulate commercial space?
Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTs) 2006
Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) 2009
Flight Opportunities Program 2010 - Suborbital
Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) 2012
Describe the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTs) 2006.
$800M
2 new launchers + 2 ISS cargo carriers
Falcon 9 + Dragon capsule success
Describe the Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) 2009.
Stimulate development of privately operated crew vehicles.
Describe the Flight Opportunities Program 2010 - Suborbital.
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.
Describe the Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) 2012.
– 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
Describe current areas of Commercial Space Development.
• 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
What commercial Deep Space areas are developed?
• 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.
What organisations are supporting NewSpace?
• 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.
