NASA 2024 Space-Based Solar Power

48 WBS Elements RD1 RD2 Sources Servicer Manufacturing Cost - Assemble ($) $10.9B $9.8B Using the Crawford model, 85% learning curve. Assemble Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Mission Assurance Cost ($) $2.7B $2.5B 25% of hardware cost. Assemble Mission Operations cost ($/month) $1,200,000.00 $1,200,000.00 4x Aerospace's ADR fleet 300k monthly operations cost. Analog of Starlink (300 seats 200k each estimate), annual operations cost https://www.reuters.com/article/usspacex-starlink-insightidUSKCN1N50FC Total Mission Operations Assembly cost not including launch ($) $106M $182M Aerospace, modified proportional to number of servicers; MOCET historical average of NASA missions used. Aerospace ADR fleet was assumed autonomous and had flat operations cost; we are applying a similar methodology evenly across each phase's mission operations costs. Starship payload capacity to LEO (kg) 100,000.00 100,000.00 https://www.spacex.com/media/star ship_users_guide_v1.pdf Starship launch cost ($) $100,000,000.00 $100,000,000.00 Aerospace 9/2022 cites (Vorbach, 2022) Block buy discounted rate 0.85 0.85 Aerospace Disposable Starship payload capacity to GEO (kg) 21,000.00 21,000.00 For sensitivity analysis https://www.spacex.com/media/star ship_users_guide_v1.pdf Refueled Starship payload capacity to GEO (kg) 100,000.00 100,000.00 https://www.spacex.com/media/star ship_users_guide_v1.pdf Refuel launches required per Starship LEO to GEO 12.00 12.00 Blue Origins Fed’n, LLC; Dynetics, Inc.-A Leidos Co., supra at 27 n.13. Reuses of each Starship 100.00 100.00 BryceTech SME for optimistic value, SpaceX Total Develop Upmass (kg) 5,899,600.00 10,042,000.00 Disposable launches total 281 479 Total Starship Assemble hardware launches 59 101 How many Starships are carrying hardware to GEO in this phase. Refuel launches Assemble total 708 1212 How many additional Starship launches needed to refuel all hardware-carrying Starships to GEO in this phase. Total Launch Costs Assemble ($) $65.2B $111.6B

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