Space Facilities Meeting Future Needs for Research, Development, and Operations (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Issues, Findings, and Recommendations
Issues, Findings, and Recommendations
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A new nonpiloted cargo vehicle in the commercial sector; 2. A new highly reusable launch vehicle for crew and cargo in the civilian government sector; and 3.
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entities are already launching satellites using foreign launch facilities. This trend will continue in Space Facilities: Meeting Future Needs the absence of domestic development of new, medium- or large-payload launch vehicles and capabilities.
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Recommendations Based on this assessment of the mission and requirements models and the analysis of facilities needs based on the models, the committee recommends the following: Because 30 years without any new launch vehicle is not realistic, the baseline requirements mode} should be revised to include a major new launch vehicle or family of vehicles. For each vehicle, requirements for assembly facilities, payload integration facilities, launch pad, and mission operations facilities should be assessed to maximize operational effectiveness.
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Ames Research Center and Johnson Space Center both have historically performed work in the life science field, and they have developed separate space suits. Such overlaps evolved during a period of robust budgets.
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competitive posture in the launch vehicle market point to differences in the management approaches used in other countries. For example, a NASA comparison of the Ariane V solid rocket motor development with that of the U.S.
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INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPATION Another shortcoming of the NFS analysis of space R&D and operations facilities is that, unlike the analysis of aeronautics facilities, it did not include industry representatives to help evaluate several issues important to both industry and government. This inconsistency prompted the committee to question the task team's level of understanding of industry concerns about right-sizing space facilities and the economic and competitive impact of any policy changes resulting from the final report of the NFS.
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These include new technology such as Stationary Plasma Thrusters, as well as existing hardware including Proton boosters, rocket engines, and Soyuz modules. Second, Russia has continued the space station program started with Mir and evolved it into an international space station program with the United States.
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The European Space Agency, Italy, Japan, and Canada are developing hardware for integration into the space station, and Russia and the United States have agreed to cooperate extensively in the space station program. Launch support for human space flight is becoming as internationally cooperative as the manned space program itself.
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These budget constraints are reflected in the mission requirements models in the NFS. As stated previously, the committee believes that this lack of investment in launch vehicles will result in the United States losing its remaining commercial satellite launch business to foreign launch vehicles, and in the remaining U.S.
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Just as with domestic facilities, major foreign capabilities should be consistently tracked to provide credible assessments of the current state of the art in various types and classes of facilities. In cases where foreign facilities set the world standard, assessments should be made regarding whether a similar capability is needed in the United States or whether sufficient access to secure use of the foreign facility is available to domestic users.
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