Studies to Enable a Paradigm Shift in the Space Enterprise: Astro/Orbital Express
Abstract
This report reviews the work done on the no-cost extension on the on orbit servicing studies. The first task was to extend the detailed communication satellite studies to the military case where the value function does not bear the linear relationship between revenues and costs. The second task was to write up all the on orbit servicing studies (OOS) in the form of an extended monograph. The first task was accomplished through the work of two students. Adam Ross showed how to extend the MATE-CON work on helping decision makers make choices from the static case where attributes are defined initially and stay the same to the dynamic case. In the dynamic case, the decision maker preferences may change with time or the decision makers may have unarticulated preferences (typically expressed as a desire for flexibility). This allows us to move from the case of commercial communication satellites (which have well articulated fixed attributes) to the military case where the preferences can change over time. In the work of Matt Richards, a systematic taxonomy has been developed for analyzing which military space system architectures makes sense for OOS.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 31, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA455064
Entities
People
- Daniel Hastings
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology