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NEWSPACECommercial Space Operations are Lifting Off
NewSpace
What is NewSpace?
NewSpace
NewSpace, or "new space companies”, is a term that evolved to cover approaches to space development that differ significantly from that taken by NASA and the mainstream aerospace industry.
Development of launch systems principally with private funding.
Low cost approaches or budgeting plans. Primary drive towards innovation. Aim to increase human presence in outer
space.
NewSpace
NewSpace Companies
Space Competitions
NewSpace Conferences
Space Organizations
NewSpace Companies
NewSpace Companies
Armadillo Aerospace Bigelow Aerospace Blue Origin Masten Space
Systems Orbital Outfitters Orbital Sciences
Corporation Rocket Racing
League Rocketplane Kistler
Scaled Composites Space Adventures SpaceDev SpaceX T/Space Virgin Galactic XCOR Aerospace Zero Gravity
Corporation
Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow Aerospace is a North Las Vegas, Nevada space technology startup company that is pioneering work on expandable space station modules. It was founded in 1999 by hotelier Robert Bigelow.
An expandable module is a space structure that has a flexible outer shell, allowing conservation of diameter for launch and weight overall. Once in orbit, the module is inflated to allow for greater work, play and living area for astronauts.
Originally developed by NASA as Transhab, the project was cancelled and acquired by Bigelow Aerospace as the sole commercializer of the technology.
Expandable ModulesInterior View
Bigelow Aerospace
Genesis I
A 33% scale prototype module launched on July 12, 2006 weighing approximately 3,000 pounds (1,360 kg), with approximate dimensions of 14.5 feet (4.4 meters) in length and 5.25 feet (1.6 meters) in diameter, expanding to nearly twice the diameter once in orbit.
Genesis I Module
Bigelow Aerospace
Genesis II
With the same dimensions as Genesis I but with additional systems to be tested and items being sent up by paying members of the public (Fly My Stuff)
Genesis II ModuleExterior
Genesis II ModuleInterior, with Fly My Stuff
Bigelow Aerospace
Sundancer
A 45% scale prototype module designed to bridge the development gap between the Genesis modules and the eventual manned complex modules; the first manned test module.
Sundancer ModuleExterior view
Bigelow Aerospace
BA 330
A full-scale production module weighing approximately 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg) when fully loaded, with dimensions of approximately 45 feet (13.7 meters) in length and 22 feet (6.7 meters) in diameter when expanded.
NautilusConstructed with several BA 330 modules.
Orbital Outfitters
“Have Space Suit – Will Travel” – Robert A. Heinlein
The Mission of Orbital Outfitters is to provide affordable, industrial quality space suits and related services to commercial and government space travelers and explorers.
The Industrial Suborbital Spacesuit (IS3)
SpaceDiver
The goal of SpaceDiver is to create the systems and infrastructure necessary to allow a human being to accomplish an emergency (or other) egress from one of the NewSpace sub-orbital spacecraft and return to Earth safely - to bail out and skydive from the edge of space - or as it will be branded, “SpaceDive.”
SpaceDiver Flight Profile
Rocket Racing League
The Rocket Racing League is a racing league that would use rocket powered aircraft. The formation of the league was announced by Granger Whitelaw, and Peter Diamandis, founder of the Ansari X-Prize, on October 3, 2005, in partnership with the Reno Air Races.
According to Diamandis, the purpose of the league is to "inspire people of all ages to once again look up into the sky and find inspiration and excitement."
Rocket Racing League
Rocket Races
To be held at venues across the country, the Rocket Racing League will feature multiple races pitting up to 10 Rocket Racers going head to head in a 4-lap, multiple elimination heat format on a 5-mile "Formula One"-like closed circuit raceway in the sky. The Rocket Racer pilots see the "raceway in the sky" via in-panel and 3D helmet displays.
Six teams are currently registered to compete in the Rocket Racing League’s Inaugural Season.
Raceway In The Sky
Space Adventures
Space Adventures' vision is to open spaceflight and the space frontier to private citizens.
Suborbital Missions Orbital Missions Lunar Missions Other Experiences
Spaceflight Training Zero Gravity Flights Launch Tour
Suborbital Missions
Price - $102,000
All of Space Adventures' suborbital spaceflights are preceded by four days of intensive training and flight preparation.
Russian C-21
Orbital Missions
Successfully flown six private citizens to the International Space Station as clients. Former Microsoft exec Charles Simonyi recently completed his second mission and became the Space Adventures first repeat customer.
Charles Simonyi - 2 missions, April 2007 and April 2009, total 25 days in space
Richard Garriott - October 2008, 12 days in space
Anousheh Ansari - September 2006, 10 days in space
Greg Olsen - October 2005, 9 days in space
Mark Shuttleworth - April 2002, 8 days in space
Dennis Tito - April 2001, 7 days in space
Russian Launch to the ISSSoyuz rocket
Anousheh AnsariSeptember 2006, 10 days in space
Lunar Missions
Price - $100 million Week long trip Slingshot around the Moon and
return to Earth Fly within 60 miles of the lunar
surface
SpaceDev
SpaceDev California is focused on developing responsive and low-cost small spacecraft - microsats, nanosats and maneuvering and orbital transfer vehicles (MoTV) - and safe, sub-orbital and orbital hybrid propulsion systems.
SpaceDev
Hybrid rocket propulsion
This unique technology is based on a combination of two, very safe materials: nitrous oxide (N2O) as the oxidizer, and hydroxy-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB), or synthetic rubber as the fuel. The result is a propulsion technology that blends the simplicity of solid rockets with the restart and throttle ability of liquid-fueled propulsion.
The most significant aspect is that hybrid rockets are much safer than other rocket technologies
Hybrid PropulsionSpaceShipOne Test Firing
SpaceDev
Being used by or developed for: SpaceShipOne Maneuver and orbital Transfer
Vehicle (MoTV) SpaceDev Dream Chaser Hybrid Upper Stage
SpaceX
Established in 2002 by Elon Musk , the founder of PayPal and the Zip2 Corporation, SpaceX has already developed two brand new launch vehicles, established an impressive launch manifest, and been awarded COTS funding by NASA to demonstrate delivery and return of cargo to the International Space Station.
Falcon 1Falcon 1 is a two stage, liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene (RP-1) powered launch vehicle. It is designed in-house from the ground up by SpaceX for cost efficient and reliable transport of satellites to low Earth orbit.
On September 28, 2008, SpaceX made history when its Falcon 1, designed and manufactured from the ground up by SpaceX, became the first privately-developed liquid fuel rocket to orbit the Earth.
Falcon 9
Like Falcon 1, Falcon 9 is a two stage, liquid oxygen and rocket grade kerosene (RP-1) powered launch vehicle. It uses the same engines, structural architecture (with a wider diameter), avionics and launch system.
Maiden Flight, fall 2009
Falcon 9 rocket engines918,000 lbs of thrust
Dragon CapsuleThe Dragon spacecraft is made up of a pressurized capsule and unpressurized trunk used for Earth to LEO transport of pressurized cargo, unpressurized cargo, and/or crew members. Initiated internally by SpaceX in 2005, Dragon will be utilized to fulfill our NASA COTS contract for demonstration of cargo re-supply of the ISS.
Dragon Lab
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public.
Further in the future Virgin Galactic plans to offer orbital spaceflights as well.
White Knight Two carrying SpaceShipeTwoVSS Eve
Flight Profile
The time from liftoff of the White Knight II booster carrying SpaceShipTwo until the touchdown of SpaceShipTwo after the suborbital flight will be about 2.5 hours. The suborbital flight itself will only be a small fraction of that time.
The weightlessness will last approximately 6 minutes. Passengers will be able to release themselves from their seats during these 6 minutes and float around the cabin.
SpaceShipTwo in spaceWings folded for re-entry
Inside SpaceShipTwo
Zero Gravity Corporation
Founded by entrepreneur Peter Diamandis, astronaut Byron K. Lichtenberg, and NASA engineer Ray Cronise, the company is one of many private space companies working towards space tourism.
The company operates a modified Boeing 727 which flies parabolic arcs similar to those of NASA's KC-135 Reduced Gravity Aircraft.
Primary Locations: Las Vegas, NV – Signature Air Terminal at McCarran
International Airport Cape Canaveral, FL – Shuttle Landing Facility at the
Kennedy Space Center Titusville, FL – Bristow Air Center
G-Force One
Floating in Zero-GA number of notable passengers have been on weightless flights run by the company, including Penn Jillette and Teller , Martha Stewart, Burt Rutan, Buzz Aldrin, and John Carmack.
Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking also completed a shortened flight on April 26, 2007.
The current price of a flight for a single passenger is $4,950.00.
Questions?
Continuing...
How can you get involved?
Space Competitions
NewSpace Conferences
Space Organizations
Space Competitions
Space Competitions
Ansari X Prize America's Space Prize Google Lunar X Prize N-Prize Centennial Challenges
Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X PRIZE was a space competition in which the X PRIZE Foundation offered a $10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
The prize was won on October 4, 2004 by the project designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, using the experimental spaceplane SpaceShipOne.
White Knight One carrying Space Ship OnePre-Launch
Launching Space Ship One, Winning the XPRIZE
America’s Space Prize
America's Space Prize is a US$50 million space competition in orbital spaceflight established and funded by hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow. The prize would have been awarded to the first US-based privately-funded team to design and build a reusable manned capsule capable of flying 5 astronauts to a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable space module. The prize expires January 10, 2010. There must be two flights within 60 days. The teams must be based in the United States of America.
Google Lunar XPRIZE
The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth.
18 teams, many multi-national, are currently developing their entry.
Odyssey MoonCraft Name: MoonOne (M-1)Nationality: Multi-national with Isle of Man/UK jurisdiction
AstroboticCraft Name: Red Rover / Artemis LanderNationality: USA
Team ItaliaCraft Name: Ascensio Machinae Ad Lunam Italica Arte - AMALIANationality: Italian
Micro-SpaceCraft Name: TBDNationality: USA
Next Giant LeapCraft Name: TBDNationality: USA
FREDNETCraft Name: UndecidedNationality: Multi-National
ARCACraft Name: European Lunar Explorer - ELENationality: Romanian
LunaTrexCraft Name: TumbleweedNationality: USA
CHANDAHCraft Name: ShehrezadeNationality: USA
AdvaerosCraft Name: Picard Nationality: Malaysia, multi-national
STELLARCraft Name: Stellar EagleNationality: USA
JURBANCraft Name: JOLHTNationality: USA
Independence-X AerospaceCraft Name: Independence Lunar Rover – 1 (ILR-1)Nationality: Malaysia
Omega EnvoyCraft Name: TBDNationality: USA
SYNERGY MOONCraft Name: Spherical Robotic RoverNationality: multinational
EurolunaCraft Name: ROMITNationality: Danish, Swiss, Italian
SELENECraft Name: SELENA 1 / LuRoCa 1Nationality: China, Germany
White Label SpaceCraft Name: TBDNationality: Multinational
N-Prize18 teams are competing for the prize.
Nebula
Epsilon Vee
Vulcan
ASATA
Microlaunchers
Odyssey
CUSF
Potent Voyager
Prometheus
LMR
Kiwi 2 Space
Team Phalanx
Qi
YitSpace
Aerosplice
Daedalus Aerospace
Solarion
WikiSat
The N-Prize (the "N" stands for "Nanosatellite" or "Negligible Resources“) is a competition to stimulate innovation directed towards obtaining cheap access to space. The competition was launched in 2008 and is intended specifically to spur amateur involvement in spaceflight.
N-Prize
Rules in brief
TThe N-Prize offers two cash Prizes, each of £9,999.99 (nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and ninety-nine pence, sterling).
The prizes will be awarded to the first persons or groups to put into orbit around the Earth a satellite with a mass of between 9.99 and 19.99 grams, and to prove that it has completed at least 9 orbits.
One prize (the "single-spend-to-orbit", or "SSO" Prize) will be awarded to the first entrant to complete the challenge using a non-reusable launch system. The other prize (the "reusable vehicle" or "RV" Prize) will be awarded to the first entrant to complete the challenge using a partially or wholly reusable launch system. Both prizes carry equal status.
The cost of the launch, but not ground facilities, must fall within a budget of £999.99. Entrants for the RV Prize may exceed this budget, but must demonstrate recovery of hardware such that the per-launch cost remains within £999.99.
Imaginative use of string and chewing gum is encouraged. Entrants are responsible for everything, organisers are responsible for nothing.
N-Prize Challenge
The challenge posed by the N-Prize is to launch a satellite weighing between 9.99 and 19.99 grams into Earth orbit, and to track it for a minimum of nine orbits. Most importantly, though, the launch budget must be within £999.99 (about $1500) - and must include the launch vehicle, all of the required non-reusable launch equipment hardware, and propellant.
Centennial Challenges
As of April 2007, seven Challenges have been announced. The six space related ones are:
Tether Challenge Beam Power Challenge Moon Regolith Oxygen Challenge Regolith Excavation Challenge Lunar Lander Challenge Astronaut Glove Challenge
Beam Power challenge
This is a competition to build a wirelessly-powered ribbon-climbing robot. The contest involves having the robot lift a large payload within a limited timeframe. The first competition in 2005 would have awarded $50,000, $20,000, and $10,000 to the three best-performing teams, meeting the minimum benchmark of 1 m/s. However, no team met this standard, with only two teams climbing under beam power. This prize also increased to $200,000 in 2006, but no team was able to accomplish the full set of requirements.
In 2007 the prize money was raised to $500,000 for this competition.
Tether Climber CompetitionPowered by sunlight
Lunar Lander Challenge
The Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge is a competition funded by NASA's Centennial Challenges program. The competition offers a series of prizes for teams that launch a vertical takeoff/vertical landing (VTVL) rocket that achieves the total delta-v needed for a vehicle to move between the surface of the Moon and its orbit. The multi-level competition is conducted by the X PRIZE Foundation, with sponsorship from the Northrop Grumman Corporation who run the on-going competition.
Texel and PixelArmadillo Aerospace’s entries
NewSpace Conferences
NewSpace Conferences
Space Access Society - Access to Space
National Space Society - International Space Development Conference
Space Frontier Foundation - NewSpace
Space Organizations
National Space Society Space Access Society Space Frontier Foundation Space Tourism Society SpaceVidcast Students for the Exploration and
Development of Space (SEDS) Yuri's Night
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