A Case Study in NASA-DoD - The Black Vault

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Table 16
PROCUREMENT RESULTS USING L-AEM
(Nominal case)
~Spacecraft
Number of Spa
pacecraft
Type L-AE AEM/L-AEM L-AEM/tS AEM/L-AE/ S
ilst/AEM-AF
L
-iL-AEM-S
MMS -- 3
NOTE: I [maximum number of payloads/spacecraft.
that the L-AEM-P configuration comprises about 75 percent of the buy,
with the balance being shared by the AEM, L-AEM-BL, and/or MS; the
L-AM~-S is never used in the nominal program.
The distribution of the program cost of the pure L-AEM procurement
option is illustrated in Fig. 10.
About $134 million is spent procuring
spacecraft and solid rocket kick stages.
The launch costs are shown for
both WTR and ETR. For the ETR launches, the launch costs are very similar
for the three allocation schemes. However, the original NASA tariff
rate that is a function of spacecraft payload weight and length, altitude,
and orbital inclination imposes a disproportionally high cost on
WTR launches. For the $15.4 million shuttle case, the WTR launch costs