http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/05/10/atk-and-astrium-unveil-a-full-fledged-liberty-transportation-system/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/05/10/atk-and-astrium-unveil-a-full-fledged-liberty-transportation-system/comment-page-1/#comment-615442 Fri, 11 May 2012 00:41:05 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1685#comment-615442 And if there’s a second BA 330…

]]> http://www.newspacejournal.com/2012/05/10/atk-and-astrium-unveil-a-full-fledged-liberty-transportation-system/comment-page-1/#comment-615440 Fri, 11 May 2012 00:38:46 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1685#comment-615440 If the market turns out to be just ISS then there will only be room for 2 or 3 commercial crew providers for the 7 or 8 crew and cargo launches a year.
But if Bigelow puts up one BA330 then the number of flights required doubles to 14 to 16 a year and all 5 vehicles, Dragon, CST-100, DreamChaser, Blue Origin and Liberty may find markets carrying either crew or cargo. The one most likely to miss out is Orbital as their Cygnus only provides cargo up mass, no down mass and no crew.

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