Role of the COE-CST in Encourage, Facilitate and Promote-SU

The current environment favors such initiatives conceptually, but the business case for them is difficult to close. Unless they have a specific interest in the hosted technology, commercial launch users are reluctant to give up even a few kilograms of launch mass at prices supportable by research institutions and small commercial startups. In the research team's recent research road-mapping effort, identifying and characterizing the space transportation market was identified as a priority research task for the Center of Excellence. In order to find a tractable focus area, the team took industry partners' suggestion of investigating secondary and hosted payloads (SHP™s). SHP™s represent a unique opportunity to achieve low cost access to space, yet are rarely used. This task will work to identify the barriers to SHP™s and how they can be overcome.

• Record URL:
  http://www.coe-cst.org/index.html

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $628445
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation

  William J. Hughes Technical Center
  Atlantic City International Airport, NJ  United States  08405
• Managing Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation

  William J. Hughes Technical Center
  Atlantic City International Airport, NJ  United States  08405
• Project Managers:

  Davidian, Ken

• Performing Organizations:

  Leland Stanford Junior University

  STANFORD, CA  United States  94305
• Principal Investigators:

  Alonso, Juan

• Start Date: 20100808
• Expected Completion Date: 20150630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Commercial space transportation; Launch vehicles; Launching; Spacecraft
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01678198
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Aviation Administration Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Aug 22 2018 1:02PM