Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1995 2:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1995 5:00 PM
Description
Development, management and operations of an indigenous space launch capability has been a prestigious but increasingly expensive luxury affordable by a handful of independent, technologically advanced nations. The development of todays international launch capability began in the 1950's as a military competition- between the United States and Russia, with China and Japan entering the fray in the 1960's. Instead of trying to meet all market demand ESA focused on meeting a specific weight range and type of payloads (commercial GTO communications satellites), and enabled flexibility through multiple manifesting. Accordingly, the launch capability developed by ESA focused on simple launch operations and a modular but focused launch capability. The U.S. Air Force seeks to gain similar operational advantages through their proposed Evolved ELV approach.
Paper Session I-A - An International Perspective of ELV's
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Atlantis/ Discovery Rooms
Development, management and operations of an indigenous space launch capability has been a prestigious but increasingly expensive luxury affordable by a handful of independent, technologically advanced nations. The development of todays international launch capability began in the 1950's as a military competition- between the United States and Russia, with China and Japan entering the fray in the 1960's. Instead of trying to meet all market demand ESA focused on meeting a specific weight range and type of payloads (commercial GTO communications satellites), and enabled flexibility through multiple manifesting. Accordingly, the launch capability developed by ESA focused on simple launch operations and a modular but focused launch capability. The U.S. Air Force seeks to gain similar operational advantages through their proposed Evolved ELV approach.
Comments
Global Competition in the Use of Space
Session Chairman: Frank J. Cepollina, Project Manager for the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) flight Systems and Servicing Project
Session Organizer: Marilou Richardson