Наноракета для наноспутников?

[Salo]

http://www.parabolicarc.com/2013/04/25/garvey-receives-sbir-phase-ii-award/#more-48405

Garvey Receives SBIR Phase II Award
Posted by Doug Messier
on April 25, 2013, at 2:22 pm
in News


Credit: Garvey Spacecraft Corporation

NASA has selected Garvey Spacecraft Corporation for a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II award that will fund development of the company's nanosat launch vehicle. The award, which is as much as $700,000 for work lasting up to two years, will fund continued development of an alternative hydrocarbon propulsion system powered by liquid oxygen and propylene.

Earlier this month, Garvey Spacecraft was selected for a SBIR Phase I award for different work development on the same booster. The award, which has a maximum of $200,000, was for "the continued functional evolution and concept refinement of an incremental series of test vehicles" to serve the nano- and micro-sat launch markets.

The company's initial goal is to deliver  10 kg payloads into a 250-km orbit. A larger version of the booster will be designed to place satellites weighing up to 20 kg into a 450-km orbit.

SBIR PHASE II
PROPOSAL SUMMARY

PROPOSAL TITLE: Alternative Hydrocarbon Propulsion for Nano/Micro Launch Vehicle (NMLV)

SUBTOPIC TITLE: Nano/Small Sat Launch Vehicle Technology

SMALL BUSINESS CONCERN
Garvey Spacecraft Corporation
Long Beach, CA

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR/PROJECT MANAGER
Christopher M Bostwick

Estimated Technology Readiness Level (TRL) at beginning and end of contract:
Begin: 4
End: 7

TECHNICAL ABSTRACT
LOX/propylene

POTENTIAL NASA COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS
Operational NMLV

POTENTIAL NON-NASA COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS
Commercial NMLV

TECHNOLOGY TAXONOMY MAPPING

Cryogenic/Fluid Systems
Fuels/Propellants
Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing
Launch Engine/Booster
Material Handing & Packaging
Models & Simulations (see also Testing & Evaluation)
Prototyping
Space Transportation & Safety

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http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=27685.0;attach=514139
http://www.space.com/20849-hawaii-small-satellite-launch.html

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http://www.quantum-intl.com/news/pr_SWORDS2013.html

Quantum Wins Key Army Contract to Design and Build Launch Vehicles to Place Nano-Sat Payloads Into Orbit

(Huntsville, AL – March, 2013) —The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) announced the award of the $19M Soldier-Warfighter Operationally Responsive Deployer for Space (SWORDS) development contract to Quantum Research International, located in Huntsville, AL. The SMDC's Technical Center (SMDTC), Space and Cyberspace Technology Directorate, Space Division is responsible for administration for the SWORDS launch vehicle effort, which provides for the development and flight testing of a low cost launch vehicle, to include subsystem development, integration, propulsion system testing, flight testing, and vehicle launches. Multiple flight tests and missions are planned, with at least one full scale suborbital test launch and an operational orbital flight test with payload scheduled.

The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) approved SWORDS as a 2012 Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration (JCTD). This JCTD is an initiative to develop a low cost, responsive and robust space launch system for the U.S. Army to quickly launch and deploy nanosatellites. It will also provide a platform to conduct technology research and qualify components for space application. This responsive launch supports the employment of new capabilities in a rapid and low cost system, defining a radical departure from classical heavy launch vehicles with their lengthy time schedules and high costs.

Quantum, a global service and technology company, is the Prime Contractor for the development of the SWORDS launch vehicle. With over 25 years of history in providing defense related products and services to the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security, and the Intelligence Community, Quantum is dedicated to developing innovative solutions to the toughest problems within the missile defense, space operations, C4ISR, intelligence and cyber mission areas. The team Quantum has assembled to build the SWORDS launch vehicle will leverage recent commercial product performance improvements from non-aerospace industries to define a fundamentally different and unique vehicle development paradigm, enabling order-of-magnitude reductions in the total cost of launch vehicles. For example, traditional engineering product development costs will be avoided by incorporating high volume production components commonly used throughout the automotive, industrial and aerospace programs. As such, the launch vehicle concept leverages considerable prior investments in design and testing, is built upon mature rocket engine technology, and is configured to deliver a low-cost and operationally responsive capability.

The Quantum Team for SWORDS includes key subcontractors KT Engineering (KTE) and Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE). KTE is a Huntsville-based small business that is a true leader in innovative low cost design and manufacturing techniques for aerospace vehicles. KTE brings to the team a prototype launch system concept with a robust and tested rocket engine design, and a staff well versed in the design and development of space launch vehicles. Teledyne Brown Engineering is a well-established member of the Huntsville aerospace development and test community with over 50 years of space systems engineering experience, delivering complex solutions to NASA and the USASMDC. TBE will support the Huntsville team with design analysis, test, and hardware manufacturing of the SWORDS launch vehicle.

Additionally, in an innovative approach to utilizing the extensive rocket, payload, vehicle launch, and space flight expertise already resident within the NASA community, Quantum has partnered with multiple NASA Centers under a cooperative effort to provide analytical, facility, and test support to the SWORDS program. Since the SWORDS program requires the successful development of the launch vehicle and the launch of a payload into orbit within a 24 month period, Quantum is able to reduce program risks through the utilization of a closely aligned SMDC-NASA-Quantum partnership. The increased probability of success in achieving program schedule and cost thresholds through this innovative team approach represents a potential game changing event for Warfighter space support and affordable commercial access to space.....as well as in putting the "rocket" back in "Rocket City!"

About Quantum
Quantum, founded in 1987 to initially help our Nation counter Ballistic Missile threats, is a small business that now provides technical services for a global customer base that includes the U.S. Military, U.S. and state governments, allied governments, and industry. Quantum's excellent reputation is centered upon providing expert services in the high technology areas of: Space Operations and Control, Cyber-IT, Logistics, C4ISR, Weapon Systems Analysis and Exploitation, Test and Evaluation, Acquisition Support, and Warfighter Support. For more information, visit http://www.quantum-intl.com .

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http://gcd.larc.nasa.gov/projects/soldier-warfighter-operationally-responsive-deployer-for-space-swords/

This is an image of the SWORDS launch vehicle configuration 2.0 model during installation for a wind tunnel test in the Aerodynamic Research Facility 14-Inch Trisonic Wind Tunnel at NASA Marshall.

Soldier Warfighter Operationally Responsive Deployer for Space – SWORDS

    SWORDS is a joint DOD/NASA project to develop and demonstrate a very low-cost expendable nano-launch vehicle for on-call delivery of miniaturized satellites to Earth orbit.

Rapid advances in technology miniaturization are opening up opportunities for the design of highly capable satellites with greatly reduced size, weight, and cost. However, available space launch systems are oversized for the need and there is no cost effective orbital delivery method capable of utilizing these opportunities and satisfying the rapidly expanding market demand.

Miniaturized satellites can potentially satisfy multiple defense, civil, and science needs at greatly reduced costs, but a compatible nano-launcher is required for maximum cost effectiveness.

SWORDS has broad base support across the aerospace community as a means of addressing compelling national security interests and enabling a new generation of civil space infrastructure and revolutionary space science platforms.

SWORDS will provide improved access to space for scientist/universities in a cost efficient and timely manner utilizing small scientific payloads, e.g. cubesats. The project will get NASA a foothold in the smaller launcher arena and get young engineers hands-on experience with flight hardware.

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http://www.spacenews.com/article/launch-report/36903nasa%E2%80%99s-next-step-for-cubesats-is-a-dedicated-launcher

NASA's NEXT Step for Cubesats Is a Dedicated Launcher
By Dan Leone | Aug. 22, 2013


Under NEXT, NASA is looking for a rocket that can loft three three-unit cubesats at a time. Credit: NASA photo

WASHINGTON — NASA is back in the hunt for a dedicated small-satellite launcher, with a firm, fixed-price contract aimed at reducing a backlog of more than 50 cubesats the agency has amassed through its Cubesat Launch Initiative flight brokerage program.
Released for bids Aug. 5, the NASA Launch Services Enabling eXploration & Technology (NEXT) contract is a three-pronged experiment for the U.S. civil space agency, which is trying simultaneously to launch cubesats without relying on ride-along arrangements, accelerate development of a new space rocket and build a framework for buying such rockets on a commercial basis, should its latest cubesat launch experiment prove successful.

Спойлер

A cubesat is a standardized small satellite design. Single cubesat units, which can be combined into a variety of multiunit configurations, measure 10 centimeters on a side and weigh about 1 kilogram. The tiny, relatively cheap spacecraft have long been popular in the academic community, but NASA, the National Science Foundation and parts of the U.S. military have also taken an interest.
Under NEXT, NASA is looking for a rocket that can loft three three-unit cubesats at a time. Specifically, the launcher must be able to send a 15-kilogram payload to a minimum orbital altitude of 425 kilometers at an inclination between zero degrees and 98 degrees. The first, and only, NEXT launch would notionally take place in 2016. Envisioned as a commercial operation, the launch would require a license from the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation.
"The [rocket] suppliers had been saying [they] think [they're] pretty close to being able to close a business case and sell these," Darren Bedell, systems integration manager for NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, said in an Aug. 20 interview. "Their problem has always been, 'who's willing to buy the first one?' Well, we thought we could go and buy it."
NEXT would be a one-off contract, but it will give the agency an idea of what it needs to do should it ever decide to create a small-satellite launch catalog, similar to the NASA Launch Services 2 catalog it maintains for much larger vehicles. The smallest active rocket in that catalog today is Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Pegasus XL, which can boost around 450 kilograms to low Earth orbit.
"We could turn this into something like [a launch services] contract on a much smaller basis, or we could continue to do it one-off every time ... we want [to] buy launches," Bedell said.
NEXT is neither NASA's first attempt to provide a shot in the arm for the U.S. small-satellite launch industry nor the largest carrot the agency has dangled for aspiring operators of small launch vehicles.
Back in November, NASA canceled a Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge that would have awarded $3 million to the first company to stage two single-unit cubesat launches in two weeks. At an average price of $1.5 million per single-unit launch, the potential award under the scuttled competition far eclipses the price NASA says it is willing to pay for a dedicated launch under NEXT: $200,000 to $300,000 for a three-unit cubesat, according to Jason Crusan, director of the Advanced Exploration Systems Program at NASA headquarters here.
That is about the going rate for ride-along arrangements, Crusan said in a phone interview.
When NASA canceled the Nano-Satellite Launch Challenge late last year, the agency said only a few manufacturers — out 15 potential competitors reviewed by staff at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. — were anywhere close to fielding prize-winning rockets.
The companies that stood the best chance of succeeding, agency spokesman David Steitz told SpaceNews, had one thing in common: they were already doing work on small launch vehicles for the Defense Department under the either the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Airborne Launch Assist Space Access program, or the Army Space and Missile Defense Command's Soldier-Warfighter Operationally Responsive Deployer for Space project.
Contractors for the DARPA air-launch project, which is looking for a way to launch 45-kilogram payloads to orbit for $1 million or less, include: Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., El Segundo, Calif.; Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Palmdale, Calif.; Boeing Defense, Space and Security, Huntington Beach, Calif.; Virgin Galactic of New Mexico; and boutique rocket shop Ventions, San Francisco.
The prime contract for the Army's program, aimed at creating a rocket that can launch 25 kilograms to a 750-kilometer orbit inclined at 28.5 degrees on 24 hours' notice for less than $1 million, went to Quantum Research International of Huntsville, Ala.
NEXT might also be a suitable next step for small shops NASA has already funded to develop dedicated small-satellite launchers, such as Garvey Spacecraft of Long Beach, Calif., which is working on a small, two-stage, liquid-fueled launch vehicle.
All of these companies "are certainly potential bidders" for NEXT, Bedell told SpaceNews Aug. 20.
Meanwhile, NASA continues to feed its cubesat backlog.
On Aug. 13, the space agency began taking applications under its fifth annual Cubesat Launch Initiative, in which the agency will arrange piggyback rides for cubesats looking to launch between 2014 and 2017.
In the first four rounds of this initiative, NASA sel ected 89 payloads for launch opportunities fr om 2011 through 2016. Of those, 12 have already been launched, and 21 are scheduled for launch later this year, NASA said in an Aug. 13 press release.
"We're flying 20 to 25 [cubesats] a year, but having calls that generate 30 a year creates the backlog," said Anne Sweet, program executive for the Launch Services Program at NASA headquarters.
If the cubesat backlog keeps growing, Crusan said, NASA might become more selective about which cubesats get a ride. Today, he said, about 60 percent of those that apply get on the shortlist for launch.
Meanwhile, the current U.S. space launch manifest leaves room for 20 to 35 cubesat launch ride-alongs a year, Crusan said.
"That obviously doesn't fly off our backlog," Crusan said. "Unless there are more launch vehicles we can fly on as secondaries, or there's a dedicated launcher, we probably won't catch up to the backlog."

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[Аполлон Сидоров]

В "крайнем" номере НК интересная статья на тему небольших ракет для наноспутников. 
Прошу администрацию разместить статью здесь – для обсуждения.
Вот статья: 
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/nk/forum-pic/Nano-rocket.pdf
 Уважаемые коллеги, к сожалению, ссылка по истечению 6-ти лет уже не работает. Вы могли бы дать работающую ссылку на статью?

[Salo]

А так?
http://88.210.62.157/nk/forum-pic/Nano-rocket.pdf

[Аполлон Сидоров]

Salo, благодарю Вас, уже читаю!

[instml]

Новая американская РН спец. для кубосатов  

Generation Orbit awarded NASA contract for launch of GOLauncher-2 for dedicated CubeSat launch

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=32972.0

[G.K.]

instml пишет:
Новая американская РН спец. для кубосатов  

Две гибридные ступени, сброс с бизнес- самолёта. 

Угар какой-то

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G.K. пишет:
Две гибридные ступени, сброс с бизнес- самолёта.

Угар какой-то  

http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/golauncher.htm

[Старый]

Галлюцинации всё больше переходят в устойчивый бред.

Тем временем реальная космонавтика никого не интересует.  

[Salo]

instml пишет:
 GOLauncher

GOLauncher is a small air-launched suborbital and orbital launch vehicle developed by Generation Orbit.

The GOLauncher rockets are based on hybrid rocket motors using a Paraffin / Liquid Oxygen fuel combination. The motors are under development by SPG (Space Propulsion Group).

GOLauncher-1 is a suborbital launch system consisting of a Gulfstream III carrier aircraft and a single stage hybrid-fueled rocket. It will be capable to launch payloads up to 90 kg.

The GOLauncher-2 orbital launch system consists of a Gulfstream III carrier aircraft and a two stage hybrid-fueled rocket. It will be capable to launch a payload up to 45 kg to an orbit of up to 740 km.

NASA has contracted in October 2013 with Generation Orbit for a 2016 launch of three 3U cubesats.
 


 http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau/golauncher.htm

[Старый]

А я знаю как можно легко набрать 100000 сообщений!  :{}

[Salo]

Так ты ж их уже почти набрал!

[azeast]

В его фразе ключевое слово "легко"!

[Salo]

Ну если посчитать многочисленные НННШ!

[Аполлон Сидоров]

G.K. пишет:
Две гибридные ступени, сброс с бизнес- самолёта.

Двухступенчатая сверхлёгкая РН, запускаемая воздушным стартом. Всё вроде в пределах реализуемого.
Вопрос в целях самоликбеза: что именно вызывает Вашу критику?

[G.K.]

Apollon Sidorov пишет:
что именно вызывает Вашу критику?

1. Никто до этого не смог сделать воздушный старт. Для всех применений можно сделать наземный или морской/речной/озёрный. 
2. Гибридная ракета объединяет недостатки жидких и твёрдых, но не объединяет их достоинств.
3. Ну зачем бизнес-жет? Вполне можно взять транспортник и сбросить с него. 

[Дмитрий В.]

G.K. пишет:

Apollon Sidorov пишет:
что именно вызывает Вашу критику?

1. Никто до этого не смог сделать воздушный старт. Для всех применений можно сделать наземный или морской/речной/озёрный.
2. Гибридная ракета объединяет недостатки жидких и твёрдых, но не объединяет их достоинств.
3. Ну зачем бизнес-жет? Вполне можно взять транспортник и сбросить с него.

1) А "Пегасус"
2)УИ повыше, чем у РДТТ, а стоимость пониже. Более широкие возможности по регулированию тяги двигателя, вплоть до возможности выключения и повторного включения в полете.
3)бизнес-джет меньше, поэтому дешевле в эксплуатации.