CST-100 - cемиместная капсула от Боинга

[ronatu]

Вот это реальный Орион!
Class!

Что этот красавец будет делать когда МКС закончится??? :roll:

[Петр Зайцев]

Агент, откуда дровишки?

Так что оказывается у них был проект для COTS Recompete, NASA их завернуло. Мда. Повезло Орбиталу.

Кстати, что это за уверенность про полет до стыковки за 8 часов? Мы тут про суточную, двухсуточную схемы дискутируем...

P.S. Орион тоже вполне реален, никуда ни делся. Локмарт хочет его пустить на Дельте в 2013-м году.

[Agent]

Агент, откуда дровишки?

Презенташка от Боинга
http://www.ispcs.com/files/tiny_mce/file_manager/presentations/reiley.pdf

[Salo]

Нижняя жидкостная САС?

[SpaceR]

Кстати, что это за уверенность про полет до стыковки за 8 часов? Мы тут про суточную, двухсуточную схемы дискутируем...

8 ч - это 5-5,5 витков. Реально вполне.
А суточная схема была проработана ещё при первых стыковках "Союзов" и НЯЗ успешно применялась.

Кстати, в КБ "Южное" в те же примерно годы проработаны были траектории сближения со спутником-целью с интервалом в полвитка. Правда, скорости сближения были совсем другие, да и задачи тоже.

[SpaceR]

The craft is compatible with existing Atlas 5, Delta 4 and Falcon 9 rockets, Elbon said.

Так и пустит их Елон на Falcon-9, держите карман шире. Корабли и услуги гораздо выгоднее пусков как таковых, так что ясно, что КК лепить выгоднее.

Я вообще не понимаю, как можно говорить о пусках на Falcon-9, если его рузоподъемность всего 10 т, а семиместная капсула Боинга-Бигелоу весит 12-12,5 т (по известным ранее данным), и то без учета САС.

У Atlas V 401 и Delta IV medium ПН меньше 10т.

То есть, из этого следует, что выведение CST-100 на орбиту предполагает обязательный участок доразгона на топливе САС?
Да, довольно логично. И даже рационально.  :idea:

[Чебурашк]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/10cst100/

Боинг планирует испытательный пилотируемый полет CST-100 в 2015г.

Интересно, кто будет лидером Dragon, CST-100 или ORION?

[Salo]

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1102/10cst100/

Boeing probes international market for human spacecraft[/size]
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: February 10, 2011

WASHINGTON -- Boeing is weighing international sales of its CST-100 commercial crew spacecraft if NASA selects the firm to continue development of the capsule, a company official said Wednesday.


Artist's concept of the CST-100 spacecraft approaching the International Space Station. Credit: Boeing
 
The aerospace powerhouse is designing and testing systems for its CST-100 space capsule, a craft the company says could begin flying astronauts to low Earth orbit by 2015. It will launch on existing rockets to lessen development risk and costs.

When the CST-100 carries U.S. crews, the capsule would launch on Atlas 5, Delta 4, or Falcon 9 rockets from Cape Canaveral, Fla. In addition to flights to the International Space Station, Boeing has an agreement to provide transportation to Bigelow Aerospace, a Las Vegas-based firm working on a manned private space complex with government and corporate research applications.

Boeing is also exploring opportunities in the international market, according to John Elbon, the company's vice president and general manager of commercial crew programs.

The CST-100 is designed to launch up to seven space fliers on several different rockets, opening the possibility of selling flights to other governments.

"There's an interesting opportunity that we're just starting to flesh out," Elbon said Wednesday. "The spacecraft that we're designing is rocket-agnostic. It would be possible to sell this like a commercial airplane to countries who perhaps have a launch vehicle who would like to launch it in their own country."

Russia and China are the only two countries besides the United States with an orbital human spaceflight capability.

India is planning its own two-person space capsule to launch on a next-generation version of its GSLV rocket in 2016.

Senior Boeing officials are in India this week as part of a trade delegation led by U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. Boeing and other U.S. defense companies were previously kept out of the burgeoning Indian market by export restrictions, but the federal government is lifting the embargo for the the Defense Research and Development Organization and the Indian Space Research Organization.

Boeing and other U.S. firms now hope to sell Indian companies and agencies aircraft, satellite and rocket technology. Human spaceflight assistance is also on the table, according to a report this week in the Deccan Chronicle, a major English-language newspaper in India.

"With our legacy in space exploration design, development and integration, we believe that we can provide value-added assistance to the human spaceflight program," the Deccan Chronicle quoted Vivek Lall, Boeing's top defense official in India, as saying this week.

Lall said Boeing could offer launch escape system, vehicle health monitoring and abort triggers, life support and crew accommodation technologies.

Indian officials have not publicly discussed purchasing the CST-100 spacecraft directly from Boeing for human missions.

Elbon said Wednesday that Boeing has not had any "serious dialogue" with potential international customers, and the company is "just starting to look" at the possibility of making turnkey deals with other countries.

Japan and the European Space Agency also possess operational rockets capable of lifting the CST-100 capsule to orbit.

    
Artist's concept of a Boeing CST-100 capsule on top of an Atlas 5 rocket. Credit: Boeing
 
NASA awarded Boeing $18 million last year, funding the early stages of CST-100 design and systems demonstration in a commercial space act agreement.

Boeing says engineers completed a landing bag drop demonstration and a test to upright the capsule in case it lands upside down. The company also manufactured a pressure vessel and completed checks on the structure at Bigelow's facility in Las Vegas, Elbon said.

"It was pretty impressive to do that in a nine-month period from a clean sheet of paper," he said.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne test fired the engine for the CST-100's pusher abort system twice last week, and initial results from that milestone show no issues, officials said.

Boeing expects to fulfill its contractual commitments to NASA by March, when the agency is expected to dole out another $200 million to several companies working on commercial crew transportation vehicles.

If Boeing is selected again by NASA, the company plans a preliminary design review by the end of 2011. A critical design review, which will freeze the capsule's layout, is on tap for 2012, according to Elbon.

Pad and ascent abort tests are scheduled for 2013 and 2014, followed by an automated unmanned orbital demo mission. A two-person team of Boeing test pilots will ride the ship to orbit on the first manned mission in 2015, Elbon said.

[Петр Зайцев]

Кто-нибудь понял, это действительно протестировали двигатель для установки на КК, или просто достали Бантам со склада, как НК-33 (хотя, конечно, это сравнение устарело ввиду того, что настоящий НК-33 уже поставили на 2-1.в).

[Salo]

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/asd/2011/04/04/01.xml&headline=Boeing%20Targets%20Key%20Space%20Systems

Boeing Targets Key Space Systems[/size]

Apr 5, 2011

 By Guy Norris

As Boeing leads the close-out of NASA's space shuttle operations, it is bidding for work under the second phase of the agency's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev 2) program as well as helping craft the future of U.S. heavy-lift rocket capability.

Boeing is seeking CCDev 2 money to accelerate development of its CST-100 crew capsule. "We'd like to bring the capsule to operational utility," says Boeing Network and Space Systems President Roger Krone. The low-cost capsule design incorporates commercial off-the-shelf equipment and is "really only designed to go to low Earth orbit [LEO]. It's not a capsule you'd ever take past Earth orbit, and is focused specifically on [transport to] the International Space Station [ISS]," Krone says.

"It would fit on whatever stack is appropriate. Whether it's a Falcon 9 or an Atlas, it doesn't matter. We're going to design it with its own escape system and we would man-rate the stack with the idea that most of the man-rating is contained in the capsule," Krone explains. "Assuming we get CCDev 2 funding, we're still on track for critical design review later this year."

Pad abort tests are scheduled for 2013, with a more demanding ascent abort test in late 2014. The abort system is a pusher device, unlike the tower-mounted "puller" system used on the Lockheed Martin Orion. An un-crewed orbital test flight of the vehicle, which is being developed jointly with Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace, also is scheduled for the same year, while the first flight test with crew is currently set for early 2015.

Whether Boeing's own vehicle will be ferrying crew to orbit or not, the company remains responsible for sustaining engineering for the U.S. segment of the ISS under a contract awarded by NASA in 2010. The $1.24 billion, five-year contract extension includes sustaining engineering for hardware and software on the U.S. element as well as common hardware and software for the international partners

For the moment, however, Krone says his energies are largely directed at NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) and the future direction of heavy lift. "Everyone at NASA is focused on this. They're trying to build their path going forward on LEO access, commercial crew and what an exploration program looks like, which is a combination of Orion and something which has enough energy to get Orion past LEO. Based upon our relationship with [NASA] Marshall, and work we've done under old Ares contracts, we're very interested in what's going to go on in heavy lift."

Before the question about prospective architectures can be asked, Krone simply says, "I don't know. I don't think anyone really knows where all this is going to end up.

"We're also working hard on heavy lift because we believe that, at some point in the future, we're going to want to go outside of Earth orbit again, wherever that may be — whether its Lagrange points, asteriods, the Moon or Mars," Krone says. "But whether it is shuttle-derived, or shuttle side-mount, or a big 9-meter or 12-meter-diameter vehicle, we're involved in discussion and debate with all the stakeholders."

[Salo]

http://www.spacenews.com/venture_space/110413-boeing-nears-selection-cst100.html

Wed, 13 April, 2011
Boeing Nears Rocket Selection for Initial CST-100 Flights[/size]
By Amy Svitak

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Boeing expects  to choose next month one of five rockets potentially in the running to launch unmanned flight tests and early crewed missions of the seven-person CST-100 space taxi it is developing with financial backing from NASA.

    "Currently we're doing a procurement to select a rocket that we'll use for the test flights and probably the first set of operational flights," John Elbon, Boeing Defense, Space & Security's vice president and general manager of commercial crew systems, said in an April 12 interview during the National Space Symposium here.

    Elbon said Boeing has designed the 13-metric-ton CST-100 to be capable of launching to the international space station and other low Earth orbit destinations atop a variety of rockets, including United Launch Alliance's Delta 4 and Atlas 5, the Space Exploration Technologies-built Falcon 9, the European Ariane 5 and the proposed Liberty rocket that would be built by Minneapolis-based ATK and Les Mureaux, France-based Astrium Space Transportation.

    "But we need to select one so we can do a point solution, build a launch vehicle adapter and do the test flights," Elbon said, adding "we have to work with the launch vehicle provider to make sure that the launch pad is capable of human access and that sort of thing."

    Elbon said the procurement has been underway since late January and that Boeing is on track to choose the rocket in May. During an April 13 news conference here he said the initial rocket selection would be used during the CST-100's test phase to nail down performance parameters.

    "There's a next level of design that you have to do to really layout the abort scenarios, really layout the aero-performance, get down into the details, and so we'll select a single vehicle to do that with," Elbon said April 13. "Further down stream if there were economic reasons or other reasons that we wanted to be able to fly on an additional vehicle, we could do that more detailed work on that vehicle as well. So we'll probably be in a position where with about two years or so of work we could then be totally compatible with another vehicle as we move forward."

    Elbon said Boeing is planning to conduct two wind tunnel tests of scale- models of the rocket and capsule to refine ascent performance calculations and determine the precise design of the capsule's abort profiles.

    "We'll do two of those, one's with a smaller rocket model and one is maybe 10 or 12 feet [3 or 3.7 meters] long," he said during the April 12 interview, adding that Boeing has not yet selected a wind tunnel facility for the tests. "That will probably be a function of the launch vehicle we select and which wind tunnels they're typically working with."

    Boeing is developing the CST-100 in collaboration with North Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace. Last year NASA awarded the team $18 million to mature the capsule design under the agency's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program.

    During the first round of CCDev work, Elbon said the company completed a system design review of the CST-100, constructed a pressure-test article, test fired the capsule's Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne-built abort engine, developed a mockup and made progress on the capsule's autonomous rendezvous and docking system and heat shield.

    "We accomplished that with $18 million of NASA investment [and] we put in a like amount," Elbon said April 13. "It was incredible the amount we were able to get done for that amount of money."

    Although NASA was expected to announce a second round of CCDev awards valued at around $270 million in mid-April, that did not happen and government and industry sources say the award is on hold.

    "I'm hopeful that it happens relatively soon," Elbon said April 13. "We've been working since the end of [CCDev 1] up to this point with internal funds to keep our team going and I'm real anxious to get going and work with NASA."

    Elbon said Boeing would use additional funding under CCDev 2 to further CST-100 development, and plans to complete a preliminary design review of the capsule this fall while making progress toward completing a critical design review next year. In addition to the wind tunnel tests, by May 2012 — when CCDev 2 is slated to wrap up — Boeing hopes to have completed two safety reviews, abort engine firings, separation tests and a series of airbag and parachute drops tests to demonstrate the CST-100s landing capability.

    Ultimately, Elbon said, Boeing expects to conduct a pad abort test of the CST-100 crew escape system in 2013 followed by two unmanned flight tests the following year. A final flight demo, slated for late 2014, would send two Boeing test pilots to low Earth orbit, he said.

[Salo]

http://cybersecurity.ru/space/120729.html

НАСА выделяет 270 млн долларов частным американским космическим подрядчикам[/size]
(02:24) 19.04.2011

Американское космическое агентство НАСА выделило очередную порцию грантов четырем компания, работающим по программе развития американской пилотируемой космонавтики. Четыре компании, в том числе Boeing и SpaceX, получили в общей сложности 270 млн долларов. Согласно данным НАСА, больше всего денег - 92,3 млн долларов - получила компания Boeing, которая недавно начала вторую часть программы по созданию коммерческого пилотируемого корабля CCDev2.

Компания Sierra Nevada Corp, ведущая разработки собственного космического шаттла DreamChaser, получила 80 млн долларов из госбюджета США. Еще 75 млн долларов получила компания SpaceX, недавно завершившая испытания по выведению своей космической капсулы Dragon. Напомним, что компания на собственной ракете-носителе вывела Dragon на околоземную орбиту, после чего Dragon обогнула нашу планету по кругу и приземлилась в Тихом океане.

Наконец, 22 млн долларов получила компания Blue Origin, также работающая по программе развития частной космонавтики.

[Salo]

Интересно, а почему тему переместили в этот раздел?

[Salo]

Вот немного о жидкостной САС CST-100:
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_channel.jsp?channel=space&id=news/awst/2011/04/18/AW_04_18_2011_p46-307321.xml&headline=Rocketdyne%20Worries%20About%20Retaining%20Workforce&next=10

PWR continues work with Polaris on the Bantam low-cost, dual-use booster/launch abort system for Boeing's CST100 spacecraft. Four of the variable-thrust engines would be used for orbital maneuvering. But should a launch abort be required, the Bantam engines could go from cold to full 50,000-lb.-thrust power in 80 milliseconds and sustain that output for 3 sec. in order to separate the crew capsule safely from the launcher.

[Salo]

http://www.pw.utc.com/Media+Center/Press+Releases/Pratt+%26+Whitney+Rocketdyne+Selected+to+Support+Boeing+to+Mature+the+Design+of+the+CST-100+Spacecraft%27s+Integrated+Service+Module+and+Launch+Abort+Propulsion+System

CANOGA PARK, Calif., April 18, 2011 – The Boeing Company has selected Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to help mature the design of its Service Module and integrated Launch Abort propulsion system for the Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft.  The propulsion system is a critical element for a safe, affordable and near-term commercial crew transportation system to low-Earth orbit.  Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.

"Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is prepared and ready to execute the second round of integrated propulsion support under Boeing's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) Space Act Agreement with NASA," said Terry Lorier, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's CCDev program manager supporting Boeing's Commercial Crew programs.  "We look forward to continuing our partnership with Boeing in pursuit of the next-generation, commercial-crew certified spacecraft."

The CCDev 2 program builds upon the successful propulsion system design and rapid hot-fire Bantam demonstration engine tests performed during the first round of CCDev.  The CCDev 2 enables Boeing to reduce key component risks and mature its system through early Design Reviews – critical steps to ensure the system design meets all requirements.  When development is completed, the vehicle will be capable of transporting people to the International Space Station and other future low-Earth orbit destinations, including Bigelow Aerospace's planned Orbital Space Complex.

Under its contract with Boeing, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne will leverage proven Attitude Control Propulsion System thrusters from heritage programs, the successful hot-fire Bantam test, and its storable propellant engineering capabilities to best meet Boeing's requirements.

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a part of Pratt & Whitney, is a preferred provider of high-value propulsion, power, energy and innovative system solutions used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications, including the main engines for the space shuttle, Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, missile defense systems and advanced hypersonic engines. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is headquartered in Canoga Park, Calif., and has facilities in Huntsville, Ala.; Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; West Palm Beach, Fla.; Stennis Space Center, Miss; and Carlstadt, N.J.  For more information about Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, go to www.prattwhitneyrocketdyne.com.

Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.

[Salo]

http://www.pw.utc.com/Media+Center/Press+Releases/Pratt+%26+Whitney+Rocketdyne+Successfully+Hot-Fire+Tests+Launch+Abort+Demonstration+Engine+for+Boeing%27s+CST-100+Spacecraft

CANOGA PARK, Calif., March 14, 2011 – Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne successfully completed a series of hot-fire tests of the Bantam demonstration engine for an innovative "pusher" launch abort system on The Boeing Company's CST-100 spacecraft.  The launch abort engine is a critical component of future commercial crew transportation to low-Earth orbit.  Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX) company.

A pusher launch abort system "pushes" or propels a spacecraft toward safety if a launch abort is needed and, if unused for an abort, the propellant can be used for other portions of the mission. The tests were conducted on a new test stand in the California desert.

"The successful engine test series was Boeing's last major milestone under our current Commercial Crew Development Space Act Agreement with NASA. It validates our technical approach for a pusher launch abort system," said Keith Reiley, deputy program manager, Commercial Crew programs, Boeing.  "With this system, we can use the abort fuel to re-boost the space station orbit, which is an added benefit to NASA and Bigelow Aerospace.  This is a significant step in our plan to provide safe, reliable and affordable crew and passenger transportation to the International Space Station and other low-Earth orbit destinations."

"The engine performance was stable during the full-duration tests, achieving 52,000 to 54,000 pounds of thrust, and the hardware was in excellent condition after the tests," said Terry Lorier, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Bantam program manager supporting Boeing's Commercial Crew programs.  "The tests validated operating conditions during engine start-up and shut down, provided key thermal and analytical data, and met or exceeded all contract requirements.  We are extremely pleased with the latest test demonstration's rapid success in validating a key element of Boeing's launch abort system, and look forward to continuing our partnership with Boeing in pursuit of the next-generation, commercial human-rated spacecraft."

Boeing is advancing the design of the CST-100 under a Commercial Crew Development Space Act Agreement with NASA.  When development is completed, the vehicle will be capable of transporting people to the International Space Station and other future low-Earth orbit destinations.  Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is operating under a fixed price contract to Boeing to reduce risk and demonstrate the applicability of the Bantam engine to Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft.

View related .

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a part of Pratt & Whitney, is a preferred provider of high-value propulsion, power, energy and innovative system solutions used in a wide variety of government and commercial applications, including the main engines for the space shuttle, Atlas and Delta launch vehicles, missile defense systems and advanced hypersonic engines. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is headquartered in Canoga Park, Calif., and has facilities in Huntsville, Ala.; Kennedy Space Center, Fla.; West Palm Beach, Fla.; and Stennis Space Center, Miss. For more information about Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, go to www.prattwhitneyrocketdyne.com.

Pratt & Whitney is a world leader in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial gas turbines. United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the global aerospace and commercial building industries.

[Salo]

,А нельзя ли и эту тему вернуть в "Пилотируемые"?

[pkl]

Действительно хорошо бы

[V.B.]

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2011/08/04/boeing-selects-atlas-v-for-commercial-crew-launcher/

HOUSTON, Aug. 4, 2011 – The Boeing Company today announced it has selected the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket to launch the Boeing Crew Space Transportation CST-100 spacecraft from Florida's Space Coast.

If NASA selects Boeing for a development contract with sufficient funding, ULA will provide launch services for an autonomous orbital flight, a transonic autonomous abort test launch, and a crewed launch, all in 2015.

Boeing plans to begin wind tunnel testing of the Atlas V and the CST-100 this year and will use the results to complete a preliminary design review of the integrated system in 2012 under the second round of its Commercial Crew Development Space Act Agreement with NASA.

[LG]

Всех семиместных для начала резко урезаем до троих. Потом смотрим - если есть успехи то осторожно добавляем четвертого...