A half-price missile * The developer of the Arrow and Comet worked on developing a launcher that would allow commercial space launches to be discounted at half the price
1.6.1998
By: Avi Blizovsky (published at the time by Baharez)
For over six years, Dov Raviv, the developer of the Arrow and the Comet, has been planning the
His next project - a new rocket that will enable the cheap launch of satellites into space.
These days, the book of the journalist Amos was published by Zamora-Beitan
"Slivers of Hope" heart that unfolds the stories of several high-tech entrepreneurs
Prominence and the people behind them. In the chapter dedicated to Dov Raviv, writes
Levev: "Raviv was looking for a solution during this period that combines existing systems and an approach
A new systemic high school, to save on the costs of launching satellites
desecrate. According to the book, Raviv is working to create the breakthrough for space accessibility
'I will implement this project using the same system with which I have operated
And which I have operated for the past thirty years - the military industry and the industry
The Ha'arit" heartily quotes Raviv. {
In a conversation with Haaretz, Raviv agreed to provide additional details about the launcher: "Fitness
Its lifting to a low orbit will be 1.5 times compared to the Harian-5 rocket
the French, and in a geostationary orbit (the path of the communication satellites -
at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers, twice as high as the Aryan-2. For comparison,
The Harian is capable of lifting a payload containing one or more satellites, total weight
of 18 thousand kg for a track at an altitude of 200 kilometers, and 5,900 kg for a track
Geostationary.
[Raviv plans to carry out the launches from the Alcantara test field in Brazil.
This site is located on the equator, which makes the launches easier, because it is in the area
It is the momentum that the rocket receives from the Earth's axis of rotation around itself
maximum.
The potential customers of this launcher are all those enterprises that use
Today in almost every possible launcher - American, European, Russian and even Chinese.
An enterprise of this type is, for example, Telesik by Craig McCaw and Bill Gates. This
A project to launch hundreds of communication satellites to an altitude of 800 km, which will be used
For transferring fast computer communication - mainly Internet connection. {
[Q: How do you intend to compete with giants like Boeing and Lockheed?
Martin, they don't sit idly by and plan missiles either
cheaper?{
[“I'm not dealing with the competition, I'm simply offering a launch using a launcher
Good and reliable at an appropriate price. I leave all the rest to the consideration of
the market You don't have to deal with it, you have to do it. Besides, there have already been cases of
David against Goliath, the arrow succeeds, while the Ted missile is a missile against missiles
Lockheed-Martin prime contracting had seven consecutive failures."
[Raviv wishes to emphasize that this is a missile with civilian uses only, all
Anyone who wants to place a satellite and is willing to pay the launch price - please.
Meanwhile, the conceptual design of the launcher is finished, and the thing that is delaying today
Its execution is obtaining investors to start the project. droplet
Estimates that the development of the launcher and the establishment of a production line should cost less
From two hundred million dollars.
Commercial space programs in the US will increase in the early 21st century. The question
Will they develop gradually, or in leaps and bounds, was the main issue
in two seminars held recently by the Federal Aviation Agency
As part of a forecasting conference held in Arlington, Virginia in February 98
The meetings were attended by representatives of companies that produce or provide services
for the space launch industry, as well as independent experts and officials from the government,
In order to understand what legislations the government should take to encourage the
space transportation towards the first two thousand years.
The panel members were divided into two types. One group saw the commercialization of space
In terms of revolution, since they will be possible in a mass form only when a vessel
The launch will be significantly cheaper, and only then will initiatives start
From space tourism, to solar power plants that will transmit the power in microwaves
to the earth Another group that participated in the panel, believed that this could be achieved
Even in the continuation of the gradual development, when the cost of the launches decreases in a way
Slow but sure, and all these initiatives will have to wait.{
[Senior representatives of four companies working on development participated in the panel
Cheap launchers, and they showed the potential and the new markets that would open up
in the near future when these launchers become available. Most of the missiles
These have already reached the test launch stages. Dan Brandstein, Vice President
A senior official at Kistler Aerospace reported that the first flight of the missile
has two stages,
which will also be relaunched planned for the fourth quarter of 98
And commercial launches are already planned for 99. That year he will do it
The first test of the Roton, so Tuan founder of the Gary Rotary Missile Company
Hudson, as well as Huckleberry Sprint, according to the president of Kelly Spice
And Technology Michael Kelly.
In the abstract of the conference published on the Internet recently, it appears that research at NASA
And the US Air Force tests future technologies, which may
further reduce the launch costs. John Cole,
The director of the Space Transportation Research Department at NASA says that it is a number
Studies in a variety of areas, starting with Maglev MAGLEV machine systems)
that you can double the amount of cargo in the missile without increasing the amount of fuel
required), up to Ramjet, RAMJET and programs for radiation engines
The laser users - a scaled down version of those tried last year in his sons
Mexico. {
["Ten years ago there was no commercial space industry at all" she says
Patricia Smith, assistant director of the commercial flights department at the Aviation Authority.
In 1996, the civilian launch budget exceeded all expenses
The government is in space - for the first time, and the trend seems irreversible." She
summarizes {
[Even if the panel members do not agree about the rate of change, they all do
It is believed that commercial space flights will be more and more important than
in the past The limit will be more subject to the economics of access to space, than
In the technology required to get there. In the words of Greg Marinickgreg
Marinik, president of Futron Corporation and chief operating officer at X Company
Fries The return on capital will be more important than the drive to raise things
desecrate. Raviv agrees with him.
