Re: commercial uses of the Dtick and the Heavy Lifter

Herm wrote:
> I know this will be a NASA vehicle, but if the companies involved were to
> offer it commercially, what would be the cost?, what would be the benefits?
> and what payload could it be used for? and were would it be launched from?
>
> Is there a use for super massive satellite?, how about launching it on the
> new heavy lifter?..
>
> I would guess it its launched by NASA the cost could be lower.
> Herm
> Astropics http://home.att.net/~hermperez

Here, for comparison, are masses and estimated "prices"
for the heaviest U.S. launch vehicles. There are rough
relationships between gross liftoff weight (GLOW)
and launch price and dry mass and launch price. The
Stick would be heavier than Delta 4H but lighter than
Titan 4B, so a first-order guess would be that the
launch "price" would be somewhere around $300 million,
plus or minus (not including payload costs). Given
that Delta 4 and Atlas 5 haven't been commercially
competitive, it doesn't seem likely that a Stick rocket
would be either.

Dry Mass GLOW PL Est Price
Mass t t LEOx28 $M2005
Titan 405 88.60 903.52 21.68 410.0
SRB-Stick 99.00 768.00 26.00 ???.?
Delta 4H 85.92 712.00 23.50 254.0
Atlas 5-552 47.04 564.43 20.52 192.0
Atlas 5-532 39.13 471.91 17.30 160.0
Delta 4M+54 42.55 337.57 15.50 160.0
Atlas 5-402 25.37 330.26 12.50 138.0
Delta 8930 30.12 296.20 8.30 90.0
Delta 4M+42 35.55 289.69 13.70 138.0
Delta 7920H 26.32 280.18 6.14 78.0
Delta 4M 31.48 251.53 9.50 133.0

- Ed Kyle

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Mars Viewmaster
    ... launch frequency, perhaps with an RLV, makes sense. ... a Mars Direct sort of mission ... fraction of the mission cost divided across the weight of all the ... infrastructure, that loft between 500 metric tons to 2,000 metric tons ...
    (sci.space.policy)
  • Re: Space Access Update #112 9/19/05
    ... Given that every spacelaunch project has cost ... >> blow the old ways of doing space launch out of the sky, ... >> technical magnitude as previous government programs, ... > was the refusal of NASA to consider the Boeing RASV/ ...
    (sci.space.policy)
  • Re: Space Access Update #112 9/19/05
    ... Given that every spacelaunch project has cost ... > blow the old ways of doing space launch out of the sky, ... > technical magnitude as previous government programs, ... was the refusal of NASA to consider the Boeing RASV/ ...
    (sci.space.policy)
  • Re: Branson and Bigelow to team up for a space hotel?
    ... obtaining the minimum cost for doing so. ... lol. ... physical reality of what it takes to launch payloads into space. ... launches - that adds $60 million to the cost of getting up given mass. ...
    (sci.space.policy)
  • Support ETSMD
    ... large payloads directly to outer space from Earth deserves your support. ... We have seen rocket launch costs increase hundredsfold since the heydey ... Station, designed, built, and operated at a cost of over ten billion ... That's part of the attraction of the Earth to Space Mass Driver, ETSMD: ...
    (sci.space.policy)
Loading