Session
Technical Session II: Systems, Buses
Abstract
Several technological institutions and scientific center are presently forbidden to access space exploration, because of the high costs involved with satellite development and launch. ITALSPAZIO has performed several studies directed toward the minimization of such costs. Possible design approaches are: use of a small bus capable to fly at marginal cost on expendable launch vehicles by paying delta-costs when passing from one launcher class to the upper next of the same launcher, (an example is constituted by the ARIANE IV when passing from AIRANE 40 to ARIANE 42s); use of left-over launcher capacities; use of subsystems and equipment’s developed for the two cases above, but using lower cost launcher.
The Italian Approach to Small Satellites for Low Cost Access to Space Developments
Several technological institutions and scientific center are presently forbidden to access space exploration, because of the high costs involved with satellite development and launch. ITALSPAZIO has performed several studies directed toward the minimization of such costs. Possible design approaches are: use of a small bus capable to fly at marginal cost on expendable launch vehicles by paying delta-costs when passing from one launcher class to the upper next of the same launcher, (an example is constituted by the ARIANE IV when passing from AIRANE 40 to ARIANE 42s); use of left-over launcher capacities; use of subsystems and equipment’s developed for the two cases above, but using lower cost launcher.
