 t/Space CXV approaches ISS (t/Space) Commercial Orbital Transportation Services is a NASA program to coordinate the commercial delivery of crew and cargo to the International Space Station. The program was announced on January 18, 2006.[1] Instead of flying payloads to the International Space Station (ISS) on government operated vehicles, NASA would spend $500 million (less than the cost of a single Space Shuttle flight) through 2010 to finance the demonstration of orbital transportation services from commercial providers. Image File history File links Tspacecxviss. ...
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International Space Station insignia ISS Statistics Crew: 2 As of March 5, 2006 Perigee: 352. ...
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This is more challenging than existent commercial space transportation because it requires precision orbit insertion, rendezvous and possibly docking with another spacecraft. The private spaceflight vendors[2] are competing for four specific service areas: Orbit insertion is a maneuver performed by an inter-planetary spacecraft designed to allow the spacecraft to be captured into orbit around a planet. ...
A space rendezvous between two spacecraft, often between a spacecraft and a space station, is an orbital maneuver where the two arrive at the same orbit, make the orbital velocities the same, and bring them together (an approach maneuver, taxiing maneuver); it may or may not include docking. ...
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- External unpressurized cargo delivery and disposal
- Internal pressurized cargo delivery and disposal
- Internal pressurized cargo delivery, return and recovery
- Crew Transportation.
NASA explored a program for ISS services in the mid 1990s entitled "Alt Access" for Alternate Access. While NASA funded Alt Access no further than preliminary studies, this program convinced numerous entrepreneurs that ISS could emerge as a significant market opportunity. Seinfeld was a pop cultural phenomenon during the 90s and became one of the most popular TV programs ever. ...
After years of keeping orbital transport for human spaceflight in-house, NASA concluded that firms in a free market could develop and operate such a system more efficiently and affordably than a government bureaucracy. NASA Administrator Michael D. Griffin has stated that without affordable Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS), the agency will not have enough funds remaining to achieve the objectives of the Vision for Space Exploration. Human spaceflight is space exploration with a human crew, and possibly passengers (in contrast to unmanned space missions, which are remotely-controlled or robotic space probes). ...
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Furthermore, if such services are unavailable by the end of 2010, NASA would be forced to purchase orbital transportation services on foreign spacecraft such as the Russian Federal Space Agency's Soyuz and Progress spacecraft, the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle or the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's H-II Transfer Vehicle since NASA's own Crew Exploration Vehicle may not be ready until 2014. 2010 (MMX) will be a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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NASA anticipates that COTS services to ISS will be necessary through at least 2015. More than twenty organizations submitted COTS proposals in March 2006 of which twenty were publicly disclosed[3]. In May 2006 NASA selected five proposals (see below) for further evaluation.[4] NASA will chose the final winners in summer 2006. The NASA Administrator has suggested that space transportation services procurement may be expanded to orbital fuel depots and lunar surface deliveries should the first phase of COTS prove successful.[5] 2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Selected proposals
- Andrews Space
- Rocketplane Kistler
- SpaceDev[6]
- Space Exploration Technologies's Dragon space capsule
- SpaceHab[7] APEX modular cargo spacecraft
- Transformational Space Corporation's CXV air-launched capsule
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The SpaceX Dragon is a conventional blunt-cone ballistic capsule spacecraft, capable of carrying 7 people or a mixture of personnel and cargo, to and from low Earth orbit. ...
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External links - COTS Watch
- Private ventures vie to service space station (MSNBC, March 20, 2006)
- Advent Going for COTS - Dispatches from the Final Frontier, March 17, 2006
- Venturer Space COTS Proposal: The S-550 - Selenian Boondocks, March 17, 2006
- Venturer Aerospace pursues NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services contract - March 15, 2006
- ISS supply competitors break cover - Flight International, March 14, 2006
- SpaceX raises its sights by Alan Boyle, Cosmic Log, March 9, 2006
- Finishing the space station: an essential part of the Vision by Taylor Dinerman, The Space Review, March 6, 2006
- Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) Demonstrations - NASA procurement site
- The importance of Alternate Access
- NASA changes focus of ISS Cargo Delivery Plans by Keith Cowing, NASA Watch October 7 2003
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