Publication Date:
2016-06-07
Description:
The growing emphasis on affordability for space transportation systems requires the assessment of new space vehicles for all life cycle activities, from design and development, through manufacturing and operations. This paper addresses the operational assessment of launch vehicles, focusing on modeling the ground support requirements of a vehicle architecture, and estimating the resulting costs and flight rate. This paper proposes the use of Activity Based Costing (ABC) modeling for this assessment. The model uses expert knowledge to determine the activities, the activity times and the activity costs based on vehicle design characteristics. The approach provides several advantages to current approaches to vehicle architecture assessment including easier validation and allowing vehicle designers to understand the cost and cycle time drivers.
Keywords:
Launch Vehicles and Launch Operations
Type:
1999 Research Reports: NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program; 169-177; NASA/CR-1999-208586
Format:
application/pdf
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