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... in the preceding chapter. These activities include such enterprises as hypersonic transportation, on-orbit servicing and recycling, salvaging, and reconstitution of spacecraft, space-based solar ... commercial space transportation systems. This new period in space systems has seen developments in spaceplane systems, new commercial systems to launch satellites into Low Earth Orbit up to commercial ...

... unfolding of new space services is currently unfolding at amazing speed. There are now several new commercial ventures that would undertake to perform a variety of on-orbit servicing and transport activities. There are a ... , the new commercial space technologies now under development, and the prospect that these emerging new industries will generate even more space industries in the future. 13.1 On-orbit servicing and related transport activities ...

... Commercial Space Transportation on the US Economy'. Our latest figures show that, in 2004, commercial space transportation was responsible for $98 billion in economic activity. The dynamic space transportation ...

... -223 '''Year''' - 2008 '''Keywords''' - On-Orbit Servicing, lifetime extension, orbital replacement unit, architecture design, robotics '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2008.61.213 '''Number of Pages''' - 11 Abstract On-Orbit-Servicing (OOS) can enable valuable assets to ... spacecraft are placed in orbit, such servicing technologies will become increasingly important. This paper proposes a system architecture design for an Orbital Replacement Unit (ORU) exchange service mission in Geostationary Orbit (GEO). It describes in ...

... frontier will be in serving as a customer for commercial lunar services and in working with industry in developing the ... firms like Bigelow Aerospace (orbiting tourism hotels in LEO) and Virgin Galactic are developing commercial systems for Earth orbit, business models ... post-2020 an increasing fraction of the lunar transportation system will be commercially funded and developed (Hammond 2006). It ...

... -Orbit Servicing has the potential to completely reshape the satellite industry, but for the technology to become common- place, the commercial benefits must be apparent. This paper first examines the economics of servicing missions, demonstrat- ing the potential financial gains possible through viable de-orbiter and life extension concepts ...

... '''Year''' - 2008 '''Keywords''' - On-Orbit Servicing, lifetime extension, orbital replacement unit, standardization, policy '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2008.61.224 '''Number of Pages''' - 5 Abstract Specific policy challenges of On-Orbit Servicing threaten to stagnate this ... of industry, such as adherence to a commercial space standards board. Ultimately, standardization will encourage an On-Orbit Servicing industry and provide an alternative to discontinuing space services in failing spacecraft. '''To BUY this ...

... 2009 became known as the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office, where it continues to advance the art of using robots to service, fuel and repair spacecraft on orbit. ref 15 Hubble Telescope Achievements Although the spherical aberration problem was a blow to the quality of HST’s scientific output prior to the first servicing ...

... Abstract There are many new satellite communication systems that are either on the verge of commercial service or in the advanced planning and design stages for launch in the next millennium. Many ... what are considered to be new markets for satellites, using services and applications originally developed for terrestrial networks. Many of these services are network oriented and this will require a step change ...

... Station (OBS) in low earth orbit that will function as an integral part of a space transportation system, enabling assembly and maintenance of a Cis-Lunar transportation infrastructure and integration of vehicles for ... Single-Stage-to-Orbit (SSTO) spaceplane, which imposes design and assembly constraints due to its payload mass limits and payload bay dimensions. It is assumed that the space transport infrastructure and high ...

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