Space Shuttle To Cost $317M More
In its nearly 30-year history, the space shuttle program has seen exhilarating highs and devastating lows. The fleet has taken astronauts on dozens of successful missions, resulting in immeasurable scientific gains. But this success has had a serious cost. In 1986, the Challenger exploded duri...
One Space Shuttle launch costs around $450 million. Roger A. Pielke, Jr. has estimated that the Space Shuttle program has cost about US$170 billion (2008 dollars) through early 2008. This works out to an average cost per flight of about US$1.5 billion. However, two missions were paid ...
Other important measurements depend on composition, per the table below. Standard Cargo Container Measurements TLMaterialVolume*Mass (kg)Cost (Cr) 0 Light Wood 42.557 2.417 1,813 1 Wood 45.683 2.334 1,167 3 Iron 48.205 3.163 633 4 Soft Steel 48.252 2.785 558 5 Hard Steel 48.304 2.366 592 ...
The repeated launch delays for the space shuttle Endeavour werenot just frustrating, but expensive. NASA estimates every launch cancelled after fuel tanking hasbegun can cost as much as $1.2 million dollars. Endeavour enduredfive liftoff scrubs before successfully launching Wednesday at 6:03 p.m.(...
The International Space Station (ISS) orbited at an even lower at 330 km by 410 km during the Space Shuttle era, but the orbit was carefully monitored and given a reboost with each Shuttle resupply mission. The low orbit was due to the Shuttle carrying up massive components to the statio...
and operational costs, Zapata estimates that had NASA developed its own cargo spacecraft, the launch cost per kilogram (kg) of cargo delivered to the space station would have been around $272,000. SpaceX and Orbital ATK only cost NASA $89,000 and $135,000 per kg of cargo, respectively....
Engineering ethics: Balancing cost, schedule, and risk—lessons learned from the space shuttle In arguing for this approach the authors take full advantage of the material available on the development of NASA's space shuttle program. This enables ... DL Zeidler - 《Science Education》 被引量: ...
Pritchard (bio) Engineering Ethics: Balancing Cost, Schedule, and Risk—Lessons Learned from the Space Shuttle . By Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus et al. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii+379; figures, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $70.00 (hardcover); $...
such as a space shuttle, for the real-time monitoring of static and dynamic strain; ④ using optical fiber sensors and a high-speed demodulation device with a demodulation frequency on the order of kilohertz to measure acoustic and vibration interference signals from a reflector antenna in a grou...