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Suborbital Vehicles for Science Duties
NASA tossed out an amendment today in a quest to identify uses of commercial piloted suborbital vehicles.
“The imminent emergence of human suborbital flight for commercial purposes offers an opportunity for a new mode of research for the scientific community: human-tended suborbital investigations for cases where having a human in-the-loop would increase the scientific return of flight experiments,†according to NASA’s Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) release - a “New Proposal Opportunity for Concept Studies for Human Tended Suborbital Science.â€
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is soliciting research investigation concept studies to help shape the possible new program. The solicitation is for concept studies to identify areas of SMD-sponsored science that can benefit from the capabilities that stem from piloted suborbital vehicles over traditional means of hurling payloads on suborbital trajectories.
Several private space firms are pursuing piloted suborbital craft, such as Scaled Composites, XCOR Aerospace, as well as Rocketplane Global.
The notice of intent to propose are due August 6, 2008, with proposals due October 8, 2008.
If it’s a go from NASA, a pilot research program of suborbital flight operations would be implemented in 2010-2011.
NASA tossed out an amendment today in a quest to identify uses of commercial piloted suborbital vehicles.
“The imminent emergence of human suborbital flight for commercial purposes offers an opportunity for a new mode of research for the scientific community: human-tended suborbital investigations for cases where having a human in-the-loop would increase the scientific return of flight experiments,†according to NASA’s Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) release - a “New Proposal Opportunity for Concept Studies for Human Tended Suborbital Science.â€
NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is soliciting research investigation concept studies to help shape the possible new program. The solicitation is for concept studies to identify areas of SMD-sponsored science that can benefit from the capabilities that stem from piloted suborbital vehicles over traditional means of hurling payloads on suborbital trajectories.
Several private space firms are pursuing piloted suborbital craft, such as Scaled Composites, XCOR Aerospace, as well as Rocketplane Global.
The notice of intent to propose are due August 6, 2008, with proposals due October 8, 2008.
If it’s a go from NASA, a pilot research program of suborbital flight operations would be implemented in 2010-2011.