Industry: Presentations
CubeSats: Thoughts from an Industry Perspective
MacGillivray's (Mgr. NanoSat Programs, Boeing) presentation (Powerpoint) at the CubeSat Workshop, August 9,2009, Logan Utah. Compares requirements and applications of CubeSats by university educators and students vs industry. Boeing launched a CubeSat demonstrator that has been functioning successfully for over 21 months and transmitting data. Boeing has an ongoing interest in future commercial applications of CubeSats.
World (New) Space Programs & Projects
Lindsey's presentation on non-U.S. "newspace" vehicles and technologies given at the 2009 Annual NewSpace Conference in Arizona provides a window to projects that are not often seen here.
Near-term, low-risk, low-cost ISS Cargo Delivery Services on U.S. Vehicles | CSI
This presentation documents the Constellation Services International (CSI) development of a flexible and optimal modular cargo transport system that uses U.S. vehicles for launch and Russian vehicles for on-orbit transfer to the ISS (the challenging "last mile"). They submitted their plan to the NASA COTS competition and received high evaluation ratings except that they scored low on "new U.S. technology development", a key political rating factor. Miller argues that current ISS space operations are currently supported by a mixture of U.S. and Russian technology based on business decisions to drive near-term, low-risk and lost-cost solutions. The CSI system is designed to allow flexible use of the best launcher and last-mile transport options. This apparent conflict of good business practices and political considerations related to "buying American" is well-known these days. However, if U.S. space commerce is going to be reliable, affordable and profitable, a reevaluation of this position by NASA should be considered especially while the private sector works hard to become viable.
Lunar Commercial Communications: Catalyzing a New Industry
An assessment of the challenges and opportunities for commercial communications technology and services applications to the Earth-Lunar system.
Commencing Lunar Commercial Communications (LCC - Workshop)
A Sept 2008 update on entrepreneurial space evolution and especially the new commercial R&D and payloads focused on lunar communication systems.
Commercial Orbital Transportation System (COTS) - Status
Logsdon’s presentation provides an update on the SpaceX and Orbital Sciences milestones for COTS. It also provides an update on COTS Phase II awards on December 28, 2008 for cargo transport services to low Earth orbit to SpaceX and Orbital Sciences. A protest is underway by PlanetSpace who participated in the competition.
Positioning Space Solar Power as the Next Logical Step after the International Space Station (ISS)
SpaceWorks Commercial (http://sei.aero/com/index.php), is a recent subsidiary of SpaceWorks Engineering (SEI), Atlanta, GA. The “Commercial” entity provides services (including from their Engineering group) to other commercial space organizations. Their presentation is an overview (2002) of Space Solar Power that is top level and highly visual.