NASA Roundtable: In-Space Services and Commercial Opportunities
Gary Martin (moderator) – Director of New Ventures & Communications, NASA Ames
Dallas Bienhoff - Manager for In-Space and Surface Systems, Boeing
Ron Clark – CEO, Space Orbital Systems
Doug Comstock – NASA Innovative Partnership Program
Dr. Dan Rasky - Director, NASA Ames Space Portal
Dennis Wingo - Skycorp, Inc., CTO, Orbital Recovery Corporation
NOTES BY JIM KERAVALA
– Investors will be there to invest if we can validate the market
– Dennis Wingo – for one third of replacement cost we can give you an extra 10 years of life
– If you come to NASA with your own check they will love you
– Everyone is fighting for crumbs with NASA
– Problem with investment market
– Dallas – it’s about time vs energy
– Bigelow putting up more habitable volume per launch volume
– Human behavior is another key barrier
– Radiation, need life support mass, high thrust, high energy propulsion
– VASIMR and nuclear thermal propulsion are possible approaches
– Need to send machine shops, not prebuilt hardware!
– Beck Engineering – compact machine shop, SBIR, Doug Comstock
– For NASA you have to have your own money and have a business that doesn’t rely on NASA
– Bigelow marketing a space station to 55 soverign space companies around the world
– NACA instrumental in the development of the aviation industry
– Beamed power on lunar surface important; useful to a number of NASA missions
– Dan Adams cited an objection to LEO propellant depots due to limited windows of access
– Insurance underwriters require all mitigation of insurance losses – if in-orbit servicing is available then insurance can demand operators have to use such services – Dennis Wingo
– Propellant is a big market, rides to the moon is another big market to sovereign agencies
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