National Security Space Launch Report

Abstract

On January 20, 2004, Congress in House Resolution 4200 directed the Secretary of Defense to establish a panel of experts with extensive space launch and operations background to address the future National Security Space (NSS) launch requirements and the means of meeting those requirements. The Department of Defense (Do) selected the RAND Corporation to facilitate and support this panel in its deliberations between May 2005 and May 2006. After a comprehensive review and assessment of the future NSS launch requirements, the National Security Space Launch Requirements Panel concluded that the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program can satisfy all known and projected NSS requirements through 2020. The yearlong fact finding and analysis (between May 2005 and May 2006) of this Panel derived many findings on NSS requirements and the means of satisfying them. We introduce them here. A more complete account of the Panel's findings and judgments is found in the body of this report, and, accordingly, a study of the entire document is recommended.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA454913

Entities

People

  • Forrest Mccartney

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Astronautics
  • Interagency Coordination
  • Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Payload
  • Personnel Management
  • Reconnaissance Satellites
  • Rocket Engines
  • Space Objects
  • Space Systems
  • Space Transportation
  • Spacecraft
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Government
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space