Start Date
26-4-1989 3:00 PM
Description
The selection of a launch vehicle should not depend on any single vehicle attribute (i.e., price, reliability, availability, insurance rate, final payload placement accuracy, etc.), but rather on the effect of the interaction of multiple vehicle attributes in combination with payload configuration and sparing/maintenance strategy.
For commercial organizations, selection decisions should be based on performance measures such as ROI and risk. For government operations, selections should be based on measures such as present value of life cycle cost in combination with availability constraints. Methods for analyzing launch vehicle and related choices are described together with parametric results illustrating important tradeoffs.
Paper Session II-B - The Selection of a Launch Vehicle
The selection of a launch vehicle should not depend on any single vehicle attribute (i.e., price, reliability, availability, insurance rate, final payload placement accuracy, etc.), but rather on the effect of the interaction of multiple vehicle attributes in combination with payload configuration and sparing/maintenance strategy.
For commercial organizations, selection decisions should be based on performance measures such as ROI and risk. For government operations, selections should be based on measures such as present value of life cycle cost in combination with availability constraints. Methods for analyzing launch vehicle and related choices are described together with parametric results illustrating important tradeoffs.
Comments
Commercial Space Transportation
Session Chairman: Norman C. Bowles, Associate Director for Licensing Programs, Office of Commercial Space Transportation, Department of Transportation (DOT), Washington, D.C.
Session Organizer: Jerry Vick, Space Station Support Office, Payload Management and Operations Directorate, NASA KSC