SPS Salvage and Disposal Alternatives

A. 2 Cost of Installing Segmented Demonstration Satellite Power-CKWSI It is assumed that since the installation will probably be accomplished at the time of segmentation that this cost may be somewhat less than the segmentation cost. It is assumed (more or less arbitrarily) that the installation cost is on the order of 20 percent of the segmentation cost. CKWSI = 30$/kW A.3 Initial Mass of Demonstration Satellite (Just Prior to Start of Salvage)- INMASS Extrapolated from the data presented in the Rockwell Report SPS Concept Def. Study, Vol. VII, March 1979, the initial mass of the demonstration satellite is obtained as indicated in Table 3.2 and summarized below:

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