Economic and Technical Evaluation of Suborbital Spaceflight for Space Tourism 1
Economic and Technical Evaluation of Suborbital Spaceflight for Space Tourism 1
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亚轨道航天太空旅游经济技术评估1
DOI：
10.1007/978-94-015-9880-4_30
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发表时间：
2002
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R. Goehlich
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R. Goehlich
在现代生活中，为娱乐和商务而进行的空中、海上和陆地的广泛旅行是司空见惯的。相比之下，太空旅行基本上只提供给少数训练有素的政府宇航员，公众的看法是，它不可能是其他的。事实上，太空旅游已经开始经历了许多阶段，从地面主题公园，太空营，零重力飞行和联盟号飞往国际空间站开始。作为一种自然的进一步发展，很可能会在短暂经历失重状态后进入亚轨道旅行，本研究侧重于这些近期的亚轨道旅行，审查处于开发阶段的亚轨道飞行器并比较其能力。调查有三个目标：概述目前存在的空间旅游市场并对其中的亚轨道旅游飞行进行分类;通过确定最大远地点高度、估计必要的火箭发动机推进剂和对系统进行定性比较，确定所调查的亚轨道飞行器在技术上是否可行;开发一个称为Suborb-Transcost的成本分析模型，以估计现实情况下的票价，以验证运载火箭在经济上是否可行。
Extensive travel by air, sea, and land for pleasure and business is commonplace in modern life. In contrast, travel in space is only available, essentially, to a small number of highly trained government astronauts, and the public’s perception is that it cannot be otherwise. In fact, space tourism has already started evolving through a number of stages beginning with ground theme parks, space camps, zero gravity flights, and Soyuz flights to the International Space Station. Progress to suborbital trips with a brief experience of weightlessness will probably follow as a natural further development.This study focuses on these near-term suborbital trips, examining suborbital vehicles that are in the development stage and comparing their capabilities. The investigation has three objectives: to provide an overview of the space tourism market as it currently exists and classify suborbital tourism flights within it; to determine if the investigated suborbital vehicles are technically feasible, by determining the maximum apogee altitude, estimating the necessary rocket engine propellant, and comparing systems qualitatively; to develop a statistical-analytical model called Suborb-Transcost to estimate the ticket prices for a realistic scenario in order to verify whether the launch vehicles are economically feasible.