Презентация на тему Commercial orbital transportation services (SpaceX)

providing high reliability, low cost space transportation.
Over 450 employees

— growing at minimum 50% per year.
HQ has 550,000 sq ft of manufacturing production and offices. State of the art propulsion and structural test facility in Texas.
Launch complexes at Kwajalein, the Cape and Vandenberg AFB.
SpaceX recently has become an approved NASA Launch Services provider

Central Texas

Cape Canaveral

Southern California Headquarters

Kwajalein

– Began detailed design & development

• 25 March 2006

- Maiden demonstration launch – 29 seconds

• 21 March 2007 - Second launch reached 297 km altitude & 5.1 km / sec

• End of June 2008 - Next flight with DoD ORS Office as primary payload

Falcon 1 - View from 297 km altitude

added personnel
• Improved software health monitoring & launch automation

Falcon 1
Demo

Flight 1
3/2006

Falcon 1
Demo Flight 2
3/2007

Falcon 1
Flight 3
2Q 2008

Falcon 9
5m Fairing
(2009)

Falcon 9
Dragon
(2009)

Common first and second stages (including engines, interstage, etc.) Dragon used for Space Station servicing missions, up and down crew and cargo transport, orbital experiments, etc.

• Improved vehicle robustness
• Added slosh baffles
• Upgraded engine from Merlin 1A to Merlin 1C
• Lighter weight 2014 Al upper stage

• F1 and F9 share similar architecture
• F9 uses nearly the same Merlin 1C engine
• Similar software and avionics
• Similar launch and ground operations
• Lessons learned from Falcon 1 applied to F9

• Higher thrust engine
• Lengthened first stage
• Larger payload fairing
• Al-Li upper stage
• Available starting 2010

Falcon 1e
(2010)

• Initial vehicle

or “COTS”
Demonstrate ISS servicing with possible follow-on business

of ISS servicing after Shuttle retirement
Encourage the growth of the commercial space industry, resulting in lower costs to all buyers
Fixed Price, Commercial Milestone-based “Space Act Agreement”

COTS Capabilities (A-C = cargo; D = manned)
A: External Cargo supply
B: Internal Cargo supply
C: Internal Cargo return
D: Crew Supply/Return

COTS Capability-D (crew option) exists under the SpaceX SAA

COTS Phase II RFP process: proposals due in June 2008; awards expected in November 2008

Tower (8 January 2008)
Demolition of legacy Mobile Service Tower

(27 April 2008)

Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now

mated with thrust frame
Raising first stage tank on to

test stand

Falcon 9 first stage tank in production -
Same diameter and length as a Boeing 737

Designed to NASA man-rating safety margins
Engine out reliability similar to Saturn I & Saturn V
Lift off mass is 325 tons standard, 885 tons for heavy
10 tons to LEO, 5 tons to GTO
Pricing starts at $37M all inclusive

Falcon 9 Rocket

multiple engines
Merlin development complete
Texas Test Stand Complete

9 – Preparing for First Flight

Vessel Panel
Trunk Structure Composite Sample
Dragon Heat Shield Prototype
1:3 scale

Model Splash Test

Dragon Engineering Model

(10) to date – a mix of techinical and

financial milestones;
Five engine test fire coming up; Nine engines in September
Successful Draco thruster hotfire in March; Demo 3 PDR set for June;
Launch dates for cargo missions adjusted as follows: June 2009: Dragon Demo C1: Core Functionality - Five-hour “up-and-back” mission tests fundamentals November 2009: Dragon Demo C2: ISS Flyby - Five-day mission in which Dragon flies within 10 km of ISS and closes space-to-space communications link March 2010: Dragon Demo C3: ISS Berthing - Execute a demonstration of delivery of sim-cargo to ISS and return safely to Earth
Passed NASA ISS Safety Review Panel (SRP) in record time.
Pursuing FAA Commercial Licenses for COTS Launches and Reentries.
Per FAA regs, will pursue TPL insurance for COTS flights.
Cash-flow positive (14 contracted launches, including a mix of domestic and international customers.

service provider for the long term
- Significant expansion of capability

with investment in new headquarters, manufacturing systems and launch sites
- Proven state-of-the-art facility that provides test-like-you-fly capabilities
- Growing workforce of skilled engineers and technicians with flight hardware experience
• Current contracts with government and commercial customers demonstrate a confidence in the Falcon 1, Falcon 9, Dragon and SpaceX
• SpaceX is now an approved NASA Launch Services provider offering reliable, low cost access to Earth orbit and beyond
• SpaceX stands poised to help close the imminent gap in domestic cargo and crew transportation to the International Space Station