Orbital spaceport – a new profession for the earth-orbit space stations
- Paper number
IAC-18,A5,1,11,x45893
- Author
Mr. Yury Makushenko, Russian Federation, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
- Coauthor
Dr. Rafail Murtazin, Russian Federation, Rocket Space Corporation Energia
- Coauthor
Mr. Dmitry Zarubin, Russian Federation, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
- Coauthor
Mr. Rushan Beglov, Russian Federation, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
- Coauthor
Mr. Dmitry Loupiak, Russian Federation, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
- Year
2018
- Abstract
The success of the near-Earth manned space stations projects and first of all the International Space Station became an incentive for the further development of space exploration. Destinations beyond the Low Earth Orbit such as Moon, Mars and asteroids became the objectives of human spaceflights. Cis-lunar stations are considered as a transportation hub for the deep space missions. Planning to have Deep Space Gateway on the Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit is the subject of much discussion. Manned spacecraft Orion and Federatsiya are under development. They will be launched by heavy launch vehicles from the Earth-based spaceports. They are supposed to be the main transportation systems for the deep space flights. Studies of the possible ways to reduce the requirements for the launch vehicle mass capacity and to improve the transportation systems efficiency lead to the utilization of a transportation transfer hub on the Low Earth Orbit. The aspects of orbital stations utilization, in particular the ISS, in order to support transportation system which enables transfers between Earth-orbit and cis-lunar orbital stations are reviewed in the paper.
- Abstract document
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