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1999 Commercial Space Transportation Forecasts 1999 COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION FORECASTS Federal Aviation Administration’s Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation (AST) and the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) May 1999 ABOUT THE ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION (AST) AND THE COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE (COMSTAC) The Federal Aviation Administration’s U.S. commercial space transportation industry. Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Established in 1985, COMSTAC is made up of Transportation (AST) licenses and regulates U.S. senior executives from the U.S. commercial space commercial space launch activity as authorized by transportation and satellite industries, space- Executive Order 12465, Commercial Expendable related state government officials, and other Launch Vehicle Activities, and the Commercial space professionals. Space Launch Act of 1984, as amended. AST’s mission is to license and regulate commercial The primary goals of COMSTAC are to: launch operations to ensure public health and safety and the safety of property, and to protect · Evaluate economic, technological and national security and foreign policy interests of institutional issues relating to the U.S. the United States during commercial launch commercial space transportation industry operations. The Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 and the 1996 National Space Policy also · Provide a forum for the discussion of issues direct the Federal Aviation Administration to involving the relationship between industry encourage, facilitate, and promote commercial and government requirements launches. · Make recommendations to the Administrator The Commercial Space Transportation on issues and approaches for Federal policies Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) provides and programs regarding the industry. information, advice, and recommendations to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Additional information concerning AST and Administration within the Department of COMSTAC can be found on AST’s web site, at Transportation (DOT) on matters relating to the http://ast.faa.gov. Cover Photo Credits (from top left): Alenia Aerospazio Space Division (1998). Panoramic Lockheed Martin Corporation (1999). Athena I launch on view of alignment tests for Globalstar satellite. January 26, 1999, of the Republic of China's first satellite, ROCSAT-1, from Spaceport Florida Authority's Launch Orbital Sciences Corporation (1999). Orbcomm LEO Complex-46 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida. communications satellite undergoing testing. The Boeing Company (1998). Delta 7920 launch on ICO Global Communications Services, Inc. (1999). A 7.6 September 8, 1998, of Iridium mission MS-10 carrying meter-diameter antenna installed at ICO’s satellite access five Iridium satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base, node site in Brewster, Washington. California. Florida Today Space Online (1998). Intelsat 806 International Launch Services (1998). Atlas 2AS launch spacecraft during testing. Intelsat 806, based on a on October 9, 1998, of the Hot Bird 5 communications Lockheed Martin Satcom 7000 satellite bus, was launched satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Cape successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, on Canaveral Air Station, Florida. an Atlas 2AS on February 27, 1998. 1999 COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION FORECASTS TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary.................................................................................iii Introduction..............................................................................................1 Combined Payload and Launch Projections...............................................2 COMSTAC 1999 Commercial GSO Spacecraft Mission Model FAA 1999 LEO Commercial Market Projections Federal Aviation Administration and the PAGE i Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) Federal Aviation Administration and the PAGE ii Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Federal Aviation Administration’s Together, the COMSTAC and FAA forecasts Associate Administrator for Commercial Space project that an average of 51 commercial space Transportation (FAA/AST) and the Commercial launches worldwide will occur annually through Space Transportation Advisory Committee 2010. This is an increase of over 40 percent from (COMSTAC) have prepared projections of global the 36 commercial launches conducted demand for commercial space launch services for worldwide in 1998. the period 1999 to 2010. The jointly published 1999 Commercial Space Transportation Specifically, the forecasts project that on Forecasts combines: average the following type and number of launches will be conducted each year: · The COMSTAC 1999 Commercial GSO Spacecraft Mission Model, which projects · 25 launches of medium-to-heavy launch demand for commercial satellites that operate vehicles to GSO; in geosynchronous orbit (GSO) and the resulting launch demand to geosynchronous · 15 launches of medium-to-heavy launch transfer orbit (GTO); and vehicles to LEO, or NGSO orbits; and · The FAA’s 1999 LEO Commercial Market · 11 launches of small launch vehicles to LEO. Projections, which projects commercial launch demand for all space systems in non- The demand for commercial launches is geosynchronous orbits (NGSO), such as low expected to fluctuate on a year-to-year basis, Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit peaking at 56 in 2003 and again in 2006 with 58 (MEO), and elliptical orbits (ELI). launches. Federal Aviation Administration and the PAGE iii Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) 1999 COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION FORECASTS INTRODUCTION The Federal Aviation Administration’s About the COMSTAC Commercial GSO Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Spacecraft Mission Model Transportation (FAA/AST) and the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee At the request of the Federal Aviation (COMSTAC) have prepared projections of global Administration, COMSTAC compiles the demand for commercial space launch services for Commercial GSO Spacecraft Mission Model, the period 1999 to 2010. These projections— forecasting worldwide demand for commercial which have historically been published launches of spacecraft which operate in separately—are jointly published in 1999 geosynchronous orbit. First compiled in 1993, Commercial Space Transportation Forecasts. the model is updated annually and is prepared This document includes: using plans and projections supplied by U.S. and international commercial satellite and launch · The COMSTAC 1999 Commercial GSO companies. Projected payload and launch demand Spacecraft Mission Model, which projects is limited to those spacecraft and launches that demand for commercial satellites that operate are open to internationally competed launch in geosynchronous orbit (GSO) and the services procurements. Since 1998, the model resulting launch demand to geosynchronous has also included a projection of launch vehicle transfer orbit (GTO); and demand, which is derived from the payload demand due to dual manifesting of satellites on · The FAA’s 1999 LEO Commercial Market some launch vehicles. Projections, which projects commercial launch demand for all space systems in non- About the FAA LEO Commercial Market geosynchronous orbits (NGSO), such as low Projections Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), and elliptical orbits (ELI). Since 1994, the FAA has compiled an assessment of demand for commercial launch Growth of Commercial Space Transportation services to non-geosynchronous orbits, i.e. those not covered by the COMSTAC GSO forecast. Commercial launch activity has steadily The LEO forecast is based on an assessment of increased since the early 1980s, and now multi-satellite communications systems being represents over 40 percent of worldwide launches developed to service the low data rate conducted annually, ending the domination of communications, telephony, and broadband data space by government activities. Until the last markets, as well as remote sensing and other couple of years, commercial spacecraft were spacecraft using commercial launch services. almost exclusively telecommunications satellites located in geosynchronous orbit. In 1997, The LEO Commercial Market Projections however, full-scale deployment began of the first develops two scenarios for deployment of LEO of several communications constellations satellite systems—a “baseline” scenario, consisting of multiple spacecraft in low Earth considered the most likely to occur, and a “robust orbit. While there were 19 launches to GSO in market” scenario, considered likely to occur if 1998, there were an additional 17 launches to demand for LEO satellite services is sufficiently LEO to deploy global satellite communications greater. For each of these two scenarios, the systems, remote sensing spacecraft, and a space number and type of satellites to be deployed are burial capsule. converted to a launch demand forecast. Federal Aviation Administration and the PAGE 1 Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC) 1999 COMMERCIAL SPACE TRANSPORTATION FORECASTS COMBINED PAYLOAD AND LAUNCH PROJECTIONS Taken together, the 1999 Commercial GSO baseline scenario of the FAA LEO forecast. Spacecraft Mission Model and the 1999 LEO Additional detail on the breakout of payload Commercial Market Projections present an projections for the various types of LEO systems overall picture of expected demand for are contained in the 1999 LEO Commercial commercial
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