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Tempest: Crew Exploration Vehicle Concept
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-07)
Tempest is a reusable crew exploration vehicle (CEV) for transferring crew from the
Earth to the lunar surface and back. Tempest serves as a crew transfer module that supports
a 4-person crew for a mission duration of ...
Centurion: A Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicle Family for Cis-Lunar Exploration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-07)
Centurion is an expendable heavy lift launch vehicle (HLLV) family for launching lunar exploration missions. Each vehicle in the family is built around a common two-stage core. The first stage of the core uses kerosene ...
Cost of Safety for Space Transportation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-10)
This paper proposes a methodology that explores the tradeoff between increasing component reliability
and utilizing component redundancy as the strategy to meet space transportation reliability requirements.
This technique ...
Artemis: A Reusable Excursion Vehicle Concept for Lunar Exploration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-07)
Artemis is a reusable excursion vehicle for lunar landing missions. It is intended to transport a notional CEV vehicle from low lunar orbit (LLO) to the lunar surface. It can be reused by refueling the vehicle in LLO. ...
Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV) Independent Performance Evaluation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-11)
The crew launch vehicle is a new NASA launch vehicle design proposed by the Exploration
Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) to provide reliable transportations of humans and cargo from
the earth’s surface to low earth orbit ...
Crew Launch Vehicle (CLV) Independent Performance Evaluation
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005-11-09)
The crew launch vehicle is a new NASA launch vehicle design proposed by the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) to provide reliable transportations of humans and cargo from the earth’s surface to low earth orbit ...
An Approach for Calculating the Cost of Launch Vehicle Reliability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007-09)
The goal of this paper is to determine the cost of increasing launch vehicle reliability
during conceptual design. The launch vehicle mission requirements are held constant while
various reliability strategies are evaluated ...