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.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $628445
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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
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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