L16 - Introduction to Spaceports Flashcards
1
Q
What is a spaceport?
A
It is a site with the appropriate facilities and harware to provide integration, preparation and launch of spacecrafts from a launch vehicle. It could also provide testing, training, propellent production, launch vehicle tracking and trajectory measurements.
2
Q
What are the requirements for an efficent spaceport?
A
- High reliability of launch operations
- Good transportation network
- Personel for service
- Minimum preperation for launch execution
- Good meteorological conditions
- All year service
3
Q
Describe how launch vehicles can be integrated at the launch site.
A
- Horizontallly: horizontal transportation to pad, then lifted up to vertical position
- Vertically: vertical transportation to pad
- Vertically inteegrated at the pas itself
4
Q
What spaceports are currently being developped?
A
- Sea Launch
- Vostochny Cosmodrome
