Future earth-moon transportation system for manned lunar base project - Study of low cost configuration

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Oct 1991

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IAF, International Astronautical Congress, 42nd, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 5-11, 1991. 12 p. Research supported by Institute for Fu

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Design To Cost, Earth-Moon System, Lunar Bases, Manned Space Flight, Space Transportation System, Spacecraft Configurations, Cost Analysis, Earth Orbital Environments, Space Missions, Spacecraft Design

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Los-cost configuration of earth-moon space transportation system for a specific lunar base project is studied. The transportation system consists of launchers, OTVs, moon landers, and other infrastructures, and the combination of the variety, type, size and number of these elements is searched for which yields the most cost-effective transportation service for the several assumed mission models. Since the search space for the least cost combination will be quite huge because of the large number of design parameters and their mutual interactions, a systematic approach is employed to reduce the search space. Space fuel stations on LLO or LEO are also studied in terms of its effect on total system cost, and it is indicated that LEO fuel station will sufficiently reduce the total system cost under large mission size. As a result of these studies, a new space transportation scheme is proposed which employs LEO fuel station and reusable OTVs. Several technical issues for the realization of this scheme are discussed as well.

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