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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Spacex"”.
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Innovation in the design and development of a commercial flight termination system
… such as Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Orbital Sciences have taken significant strides in reducing the overall cost of space travel. The overall cost per launch goes far beyond the actual cost of the materials and labor associated with each launch vehicle, and must include …
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Interacción estratégica entre firmas y gobierno en el mercado aeroespacial
… En este entorno, el actor dominante, SpaceX, enfrenta tanto a competidores potenciales que podrían ingresar mediante inversión en investigación y desarrollo (I+D), como a gobiernos que, como compradores principales, pueden presentar comportamientos contractuales inciertos.
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Human settlement of Mars in the context of the Outer Space Treaty 1967
… human crew to Mars within 10 years. His company SpaceX, as well as other key players in the global aerospace industry, are rapidly developing the technological capacity and business case for the exploitation of off-world resources. Human settlement of Mars is no longer confined to the realm of …
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100 Gbps ptical coherent modem for low earth orbit optical inter-satellite links
… Commercial industry, including companies such as SpaceX and Telesat, have taken an interest in utilizing the benefits of FSOC for proposed LEO constellations and using optical inter-satellite links (OISLs) to reduce the need for expensive worldwide ground tracking networks. State-of-the-art FSOC …
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Early Plume Development and NOx Chemistry in LOx/H₂ and LOx/CH₄ Liquid Rocket Engines
… for the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) and SpaceX Raptor Engine (SRE) is performed. The resulting estimation of altitude dependent NOₓ formation in multiple vehicles can be used in global atmospheric models. In the future, results of this work will inform environmental harm reduction …
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Whole Genome Analysis of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa Mixed Culture Biofilms Grown for 117 Days in Spaceflight
… aeruginosa strain PA01 sent into space with SpaceX CRS-21 to analyze the effects of microgravity were left untouched for 117 days. Viable cells were found in some samples leading to a unique opportunity to analyze the effects of spaceflight on extended growth and microbial evolution of the …
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Assessing General Propulsion Architectures for Fast Transit Times to Mars for Crewed Missions
<p>As NASA and commercial contractors, such as SpaceX, continue to develop their programs with Artemis and Starship, respectively, it is becoming more and more apparent that the program developments are ultimately for finding a way to put humans onto Mars. However, when we approach the current …
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Innovating by Behaving: How to Adopt the Startup Culture in Large Companies
… startups, as evident by the rise of Airbnb and SpaceX. Rather than waiting to be disrupted, business leaders want their research \& development divisions to act like startups. Yet, many companies with their attempts to build an internal startup innovation environment report challenges. These …
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Museum making : creating with new technologies in art museums
… and technology companies such as Google and SpaceX; the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Media Lab, an innovation lab that invites members of New York's creative technology community to develop prototypes for and based on the museum experience; and the Peabody Essex Museum's Maker Lounge, an …
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Optimizing resource allocation in large communications satellite constellations
… Telesat), as well as new competitors (such as SpaceX and Amazon) have proposed constellations able to serve hundreds of thousands of users, using thousands of satellites. While the orbital configuration of each design is different, the next generation of satellite communications relies on …
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Multiple Simultaneous Optical Links for Space-Based Platforms
… constellations currently being deployed by SpaceX and Telesat, among others, leverage optical intersatellite links to increase total system throughput and reduce the number of ground stations which lowers the overall system costs. Beyond LEO, the Artemis program infrastructure includes an …
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Towards a Circular Lunar Economy: Incentivizing the Design of Multi-Purpose Reusable Lunar Landers and Rovers
… and launch emissions associated with the SpaceX Starship lander. The rovers redundancy and maintainability ratings also constrained the overall sustainability rating – highlighting a gap in the availability of tools suitable for EVA-based repairs on the lunar surface. Subsystems most at …
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Development of Optical Communication Terminals for Increasing Connectivity on Small Satellites
… analyzed include the first generation of SpaceX Starlink, Amazon Project Kuiper, OneWeb, and the Space Development Agency Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture Tranche 1 Transport Layer. Results from the modeling show which constellation designs are better suited for this type of …
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Multiple Asteroid Retrieval Mission
In this thesis, the possibility of enabling space-mining for the upcoming decade is explored. Making use of recently-proven reusable rockets, we envision a fleet of spacecraft capable of reaching Near-Earth asteroids. To analyze this idea, the goal of this problem is to maximize the asteroid mass …