Space Infrastructure for 2020

Abstract

This report summarizes JASON's 1999 summer study on new approaches to the infrastructure needed for building, launching, powering and servicing earth-orbiting satellites that could be applied to military missions. We were charged to consider how recent development in broad areas of technology could be harnessed to enable new, qualitatively different ways for operating in space that would reduce mission costs--capital and operating---while increasing flexibility and performance.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA383890

Entities

People

  • Douglas M. Eardley
  • Freeman Dyson
  • John M. Cornwall
  • Paul E. Dimotakis
  • Roy Schwitters

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Electric Power
  • Energy
  • Energy Storage
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fuel Cells
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Infrastructure
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Military Research
  • Payload
  • Rocket Engines
  • Solar Energy
  • Space Systems
  • Space Transportation
  • Spacecraft

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites