A report detailing recommendations for a transportation architecture and a roadmap for U.S. exploration of the Moon and Mars was released by the NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) in November 2005. In ...

This paper summarizes the findings of a recent study of space tourism markets and vehicles conducted by the Space Systems Design Laboratory at Georgia Tech under sponsorship of the NASA Langley Research Center. The purpose ...

A lunar lander is designed to provide safe, reliable, and continuous access to the lunar surface by the year 2020. The NASA Exploration System Architecture is used to initially define the concept of operations, architecture ...

Following NASA's lead in Intelligent Synthesis Environments, advanced vehicle design communities are beginning to explore automated distributed computing frameworks for integrating disciplinary analysis tools. These design ...

This paper reports the results of a study that evaluated the economic risk inherent in market variability and the uncertainty of developing weight estimates for an advanced space launch vehicle program. The purpose of this ...

This paper reports on research that integrates cost modeling and business simulation into conceptual design environments for advanced launch vehicle programs. A new design-oriented computer tool has been developed and used ...

Probabilistic multidisciplinary design optimization promises to incorporate critical design uncertainty in order to create optimal products with a high probability of meeting design constraints under a wide variety of ...

This paper reports the results of the second phase of a research project to characterize and optimize the design of an advanced launch vehicle for human access to low earth orbit. The vehicle makes use of rocket-based ...

Significant research has been conducted into the development and deployment of analysis integration techniques. This paper discusses these research activities in the context of collaborative frameworks for conceptual ...