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The commercial spaceport
… orbiting hotel. In this context, the commercial spaceport represents a new transportation typology. It must respond to the new technical demands of space travel, as well as acknowledge its cultural import as a gateway for millions of people to the last and greatest of frontiers. Here, the stakes …
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Building a 21st Century Multi-User Commercial Spaceport: Development and Application of the Spaceport Readiness Level Scale
<p>Commercial spaceports have arisen over the last decade and a half to support a growing commercial space marketplace. The introduction of expected suborbital launch capabilities for tourism and for orbital launch operations at an increased cadence has demonstrated a need for more capability at …
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Cryogenic Shape Memory Alloy Actuators For Spaceport Technologies: Materials Characterization And Prototype Testing
Shape memory alloys (SMAs) possess the unique ability to change their shape by undergoing a solid-state phase transformation at a particular temperature. The shape change is associated with a large strain recovery as the material returns to its "remembered" shape. Their ability to act as both …
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Development of an Emergency Medical Services Plan for Commercial Spaceflight Events in Spaceport America
… Commercial spaceflight is a developing industry. Spaceport America, NM, is the world’s first dedicated commercial spaceport and will be the site of the first suborbital passenger flights in the next few years. Located in a remote area in New Mexico far from major hospitals and trauma centers, …
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The Development of an Emergency Response Plan for Medical Contingencies during Commercial Spaceflight at the Houston Spaceport
… purpose of this project is to aid the Houston Spaceport, a new spaceport located at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas, in developing a medical response plan for contingency scenarios during its mission operations. With appropriate infrastructure development, the Houston Spaceport could become a …
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Transcending Space and Time: The emerging urban morphosis around spaceports
… influence of job opportunities offered at the spaceport and its surrounding local conditions-a futuristic company town. The design approach is derived from a multitude of learnings from the past and later it is curated to envision a futuristic aspect providing solutions for better livelihood of …
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From the Earth to the Moon: Economic Viability of Commercial Spaceports & Science and Technology Planning for MIT Lunar Exploration
… to demand, there are 11 existing commercial spaceports in the United States and at least another six under consideration. While a spaceport can bring economic growth and STEM development to a region, it requires significant and sustained investments of public funding in an uncertain and …
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'a Man's World'?: A Study Of Female Workers At Nasa's Kennedy Space C
… from KSC's official employee newsletter, Spaceport News, websites, and other secondary sources about women in technical fields, women in the workplace, and the recruitment of women into the labor force. Data from NASA and Spaceport News articles was also compared with information obtained …
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Development Of Titanium Nitride/molybdenum Disulphide Composite Tribological Coatings For Cryocoolers
… liquid form and by chemical bonding. Near term spaceport operations are one of the prominent applications for usage of large quantities of liquid hydrogen as a cryogenic propellant. Efficient storage and transfer of liquid hydrogen is essential for reducing the launch costs. A Two Stage Reverse …
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Influence Map Methodology For Evaluating Systemic Safety Issues
… The new methodology is being applied to improve spaceport operations and enhance designs of future NASA launch systems.
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Design, Fabrication And Testing Of A Shape Memory Alloy Based Cryogenic Thermal Conduction Switch
… and zero boil-off systems for advanced spaceport applications. The SMA thermal conduction switch offers the following advantages over the currently used gas gap and liquid gap thermal switches in the cryogenic range: (i) integrates both sensor and actuator elements thereby reducing the …
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A Gap Analysis of Meteorological Requirements for Commercial Space Operators
… of the space industry and those living around spaceports; but, are they adequate? Perhaps the commercial space industry can turn to the commercial aviation industry to help answer that question. Throughout its history, the aviation industry has dealt with lessons learned from mishaps due to …
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On the feasibility of landing the dream chaser space vehicle in South Africa
… possibly having to establish a dualuse airport/spaceport recognised by the South African Space Council under supportive legislation to support this mission. Elements addressed in this investigation range from physical facilities such as the airports, workshops and laboratories through Dream …
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How Geographic Proximity to the Kennedy Space Center Effects Attitudes Relating to NASA
… chance of generating support for NASA are spaceports due to the rocket launches they support serving as focusing events for NASA. Rather than focusing as past scholars have on specific regions, this research examines driving distance from the Kennedy Space Center to provide more detail …
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Medical Kits for Commercial Spaceflight Based on Existing Analogs
Human spaceflight has transitioned from a government run enterprise to an increasingly commercial driven endeavor. New companies are sending humans into space under an array of different conveyances and without the resource of institutional medical experience. For these companies, a standard …
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Retrieval of methane and carbon monoxide using near infrared spectra recorded by SCIAMACHY onboard ENVISAT : Algorithm Development and data analysis
… ENVISAT on an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport in Kourou. Onboard is, amongst others, the instrument SCIAMACHY that, for the first time in the history of space-borne remote sensing, features near infrared spectrometers measuring sunlight reflected and scattered back from the earth’s …
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Tight Discrete Formulations to Enhance Solvability with Applications to Production, Telecommunications, and Air Transportation Problems
… (SUA) restrictions prompted by launches at spaceports or weather considerations, this model prescribes a set of flight-plans to be implemented. The model formulation seeks to minimize a delay and fuel cost based objective function, subject to the constraints that each flight is assigned one …