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Future Transportation

Future Transportation

Future Transportation

 

We’ll be expecting our favorite robots to direct operations!

NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services

The forecast shortfall in ISS logistics needs after the Shuttle retires provides a significant opportunity for commercial space transportation services. To stimulate the commercial space transportation industry’s ability to fulfill these needs, NASA has established a two-phased approach.

In the first phase of COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, NASA helps industry develop and demonstrate its own cargo space transportation capabilities with NASA providing technical and financial assistance. NASA is investing approximately $800M from 2006 thru 2012 toward cargo space transportation flight demonstrations.  Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital) was selected from an early competition in February 2008. The COTS projects are managed by the Commercial Crew & Cargo Program Office (C3PO).

Phase 2: ISS Commercial Resupply Services – two contracts were awarded by Nasa  – to Orbital and SpaceX in 2008.

C3PO uses NASA’s Space Act authority in the establishment of industry agreements, the Space Act Agreements (SAAs). “The winners of the COTS competitions received funded SAAs. Other industry teams are developing commercial space transportation systems and some have unfunded SAAs for technical assistance from Nasa also uses other Commercial Partners (CPs).
Read the complete article at : http://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/about/c3po.html

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