A Case Study in NASA-DoD - The Black Vault

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Maximum number of payloads
per single spacecraft 13 10 8 6
Number of launches 12-17 14-19 16-23 20-26
Each of the cells of the matrix represented by Table H-6 is expanded
in Tables H-7 through H-23. In these tables, the total number
of spacecraft required are disaggregated by orbit so that one can
determine the appropriate kick stages that would provide the velocity
increment necessary to translate the spacecraft from the nominal shuttle
parking orbit (150 n mi) to the mission orbit. Tables H-7 through H-23
also tabulate the maximum number of payloads actually assigned to a
spacecraft in a given orbit.
INTEGRATION COSTS
The costs of integrating and testing a complete spacecraft appear
to be predominantly a function of the complexity of the individual payloads
themselves rather than of the characteristics of the spacecraft
on which they are mounted or of the number of payloads that have to be
integrated into a single spacecraft. Some information provided by Mr.
W. A. Myers, of Rockwell International, indicates that mission integration
costs might include the costs of about three engineering manmonths
per payload at the low-cost end, up to total costs of possibly
$1,000,000 per payload for highly complex payloads. A typical mission
integration job would require one engineer per payload over a period
of six to nine months. He indicated that there should be very little
difference between the STPSS and the 4S relative to mission integration.
The test procedures might be slightly more complicated with the
MKS so the nonrecurring costs (of developing procedures) could be a
little higher.