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New Space: a Review 2007 Space Visions Congress - Growing the The Space Congress® Proceedings Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers Apr 27th, 8:00 AM Technical Paper Session I-A - New Space: A Review Ric Jordan Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-proceedings Scholarly Commons Citation Jordan, Ric, "Technical Paper Session I-A - New Space: A Review" (2007). The Space Congress® Proceedings. 11. https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-proceedings/proceedings-2007/april-27-2007/11 This Event is brought to you for free and open access by the Conferences at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Space Congress® Proceedings by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 2007 ONGRESS C ISIONS ISIONS V PACE S TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION 1A NEW SPACE: AREVIEW RIC JORDAN NEWSPACE – A Review Ric Jordan Orbital Commerce Project [email protected] The attraction of NewSpace is that NewSpace. almost anyone has a chance of becoming America’s manned exploration of this involved in it. They can obtain roles through our solar system ended with the grounding membership, sponsorship, donations, and storage of that resolute running back financing, in more and more instances Saturn V. But the sense that it had really employment and, soon, as tourists. Many of ended didn’t occur until Skylab plunged to its these organizations have an automatic e-mail fiery end in Earth’s atmosphere. The much service that keeps members or anyone promised Space Shuttle was unable to launch interested abreast of their latest in time to save it. The greatest losses were developments. the opportunities that would have allowed NewSpace participants come from all mankind to press into deep space and walks of life. Many are former astronauts, eventually begin colonizing our solar system. retired aerospace executives, and retired Only after Shuttle began operations did aerospace military officers. Some are from American astronauts frequent space again. other nations. Many are found at Star Trek But the U.S. Space Policy of July 14, 1984 and Science Fiction conventions. One owns a let not latitude and they were confined to hotel chain, another a series of machine Earth orbit. shops. There are, engineers, technicians, a Since then support for the U.S. space retired Hollywood stunt man, and thousands program has dwindled to smaller and smaller who, as members/investors/sponsors just percentages. But within the past decade, a want to be associated with the idea of going growing fraction of mankind has stopped to space. waiting for someone else to provide them These privately financed man-in-space with their opportunity to be a part of a alternatives can be divided into seven broad spacefaring human race. They have formed categories: over 40 privately financed space programs 1. Private and Commercial Launch and space activist organizations in the U.S. Service Providers alone for the purpose of commercially 2. Space Activists developing space. This commercial and 3. Space Tour Guides private space development has been called by 4. Astronaut Training several names, but lately the term NewSpace 5. Spacesuits seems to have stuck and those involved are 6. Space Lawgivers forging on with great determination to turn a 7. Amateur Rocketeers profit in the utilization of the resources of this our solar system. During the next five Activists years the effects of NewSpace will begin to The activists believe that: be fully felt. -1- Humanity must become permanently Many plan to launch in the U.S., but established in space with regular some have and are launching onboard access to space [1]. Russian, Chinese, or French launch vehicles “All of humanity has the ‘right stuff’ because the cost and the difficulties are and everyone will benefit from fewer. opening the space frontier.” [2] Space Tour Guides Space is a PLACE, not a government contract and it is, in fact, the new Space Adventures, Inc., [15] advertises frontier and it can no longer be the itself as the “world's premier space tourism exclusive domain of the company.” A reasonable claim as they government.[3] assisted with Dennis Tito’s flight to the International Space Station in April of 2001, The Activists work constantly to these followed by Mark Shuttleworth and more. A ends, for they also hold yearly treks to few of their other offerings are: congress to lobby for and against the Circumlunar Spaceflights ($100 m) government’s policies and decisions that may Orbital Spaceflights ($20-25 m) or may not advance their goals. Some hold EVA ($15 m) yearly conferences where NewSpace Suborbital Spaceflights ($102,000) companies, other interested parties and the Cosmonaut training government are invited to attend and keep Space shuttle and Soyuz launch tours each other abreast of what they’re doing. [4,5] Currently, Space Adventures is taking Space activist organizations have reservations for suborbital flights onboard its chapters around the world. own spacecraft, the C-21, undergoing Private and Commercial Launch Service development. They predict that flights will Providers occur within the next two years or so. This group includes providers of launch Astronaut Training vehicles, services and a multitude of other Some companies such as Virgin Galactic entrepreneurial companies working on have already begun a program to train their complete infrastructures to put mankind in own astronaut pilots. Others haven’t included big working space stations that are tended by it into their budgets, because they have not orbital maneuvering vehicles and supplied by yet decided how to handle it. Currently, there upgraded shuttles [6, 7]. Some are working is only one startup company dedicating its on pieces of the spacefaring pie, such as business to train astronauts for NewSpace, solving the technical difficulties for and that is Orbital Commerce Project [16]. colonizing mars [8], colonizing the moon OCP plans to construct a training facility that [9,10], and preparing to mine those bodies as will be based upon a military style regimen, well as asteroids [11, 12]. There are single- where distractions will be minimized to stage to orbit launch vehicles, sounding facilitate efficient learning. Training will be a rockets, rocketplanes, jets carrying and balance between physical and mental towing rockets to optimum launch altitudes components. Initial course offerings will be [13, 14] and extensive construction in for Suborbital Pilot and Payload Specialist. providing four-minute flights to space for Course curricula will consist of classroom, thousands of us as tourists. simulator, and flight time. -2- Spacesuits Where is the Money coming From? Orbital Outfitters is a California-based On February 1601, the first fleet of four corporation manufacturing industrial quality East India ships left England for the East spacesuits and related services for Indies to make fortunes or lose everything for commercial and government space travelers their investors. They returned in September and explorers. The first suit under 1603, two-and-a-half years later with full development by OO is a basic pressure suit. cargo holds. [22] While the fleet was on that Its primary function is to provide a line of dangerous voyage, subscribers had plenty of protection in the event of a loss of reasons to worry about their investment. atmospheric pressure within a vehicle. It will Clearly, they had to be financially be manufactured to operate at an altitude of independent or needed some other source of 500,000 feet (92 miles) for 30 minutes. [17] income to survive during the chancy expedition. Not just the passage itself but Amateurs after, for profit from the voyage was first There are hundreds of Rocketeers across paid out as dividends over a period of years. the U.S. Most notable is the Civilian Space To ensure that the first voyage provided eXploration Team. On May 17, 2004, Ky a profit, the commander of the fleet, James Michaelson launched their 21-foot GoFast Lancaster, cheated or was typically from Nevada’s Black Rock desert. Without English. He forcefully overpowered and took much ado, it quickly reached an altitude of 60 a fully laden Portuguese cargo ship to ensure miles. That officially placed the GoFast at a profit for the subscribers. Even so, it wasn’t the edge of space. A first for amateur until the third voyage that profit was rocketeers and a success that places them in sufficiently high to generate excitement among the best traditions of Robert H. among potential investors. Goddard. [18] With each success, these The history of the beginnings of the East amateurs are pursing goals to eventually orbit India Company certainly has good and bad tiny payloads [19]. And in Brevard County lessons that can be applicable to the there is the Spaceport Rocket Association. commercialization and utilization of this our [20] solar system. Space Law Givers Startup Space companies have as much difficulty in raising their initial capital as any Currently the United Societies in Space other business venture, because the questions (USIS) is the only one of these. [21] They investors ask are usually the same. The key believe that the lack of property laws and an question is “Who are the members of your outer space government infrastructure hinder management team?” It can be summed up in the development of Man in Space. USIS has the words “People, people, people”[23]. The been working toward supplying means and investor must have confidence in managers methods to fill this void. Current space with who will push the company through the treaties don’t address the everyday laws in required milestones to its ultimate goal. space that correspond to what we live under Specifically, people with good track records on this planet. Consequently, USIS has as innovators and having the required written a space constitution that takes a major technical skills or business expertise.
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