Reducing Space Mission Cost

Edited By:

Wertz & Larson

Date: 1996 / Springer

Reducing Space Mission Cost is the first complete treatment of the technology, process, and problems in the most critical areas of modern spaceflight. The demand to reduce cost is unrelenting. This pioneering book addresses all aspects of this problem, including:

• Technology and processes for reducing cost
• Cost reduction in mission engineering, spacecraft design, manufacture, launch, and operations
• Implementation methods and problems
• The price of reducing cost
• Ten detailed case studies of what works in practice in:
  • Science missions
  • Interplanetary probes
  • Communications spacecraft
  • Test and Applications missions

This book shows that reducing space mission cost, without reducing reliability, is as possible as it is important for the future of space exploration.

Print book: 632 pages.

Audience

Experienced systems engineers

Graduate-level systems engineering students

Aspiring and young systems engineers

Companion text

Space Mission Analysis and Design