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Project work report - as was emailed 13/3 to course participants:

I promised to come back with some more words about the report and its size. Actually, the only things I would like to add is that the font-size should be no smaller than 12 and I still think each group should be able to keep to no more than 12 pages. It’s an art to write short and concise! However, there is often a benefit with having supporting material, and that can be done by adding appendices, which is fine. I said before that the report can be given in paper or by email, but I would strongly prefer email

So here it is all again about the report hand-in:

A written report describing the work, the thought process, the background, analysis of the task, proposals, results and conclusions shall be given to the examiner by the end of the Period 3 (March 21st) (email strongly preferred, but paper also ok). One report per group. The report should be around 8-12 A4-pages, with a font-size no smaller than 12. However, supporting material can be attached in appendices.

Greetings,

Christer

Lecture 10 EVA slides in PDF format

Lect 10 EVA.pdf

Open Panel Discussion on “Human Spaceflight in the society”.

Time: Tuesday Feb 25^th, 8:15-10:00

Place: D3, Lindstedsvägen 5.

As part of the course SD2905 ”Human Spaceflight”, there will be a panel discussion about the political, economic and societal  aspects on this subject. The discussion is open to all students at KTH, although the front rows are reserved for the roughly 35 students attending the course. There is room for an additional 50 persons in D3.

Panel members are:

Sven Grahn. Sweden’s “Mr. Space”, with over 50 year’s of space experience. General Manager and Senior Advisor at SSC (Rymdbolaget) for many years.

Olle Norberg. Head of the Swedish National Space Board (Rymdstyrelsen), previous head of Esrange.

Ella Sjöberg-Carlsson. Lieutenant Colonel in the Swedish Air Force and works at the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm with space related issues. She has done research in space physics related to Mars and has authored a book on travelling to Mars.

Christer Fuglesang will be moderator.

Welcome!

Lecture 9 Research notes

Lect 9 Research.pdf

Traineeship in Estonia. Perhaps an interesting opportunity related to space. Maybe possible to tailor as thesis work, thoug I don't know.

ChristerTraineeship in Estonia eng.pdf

Lecture 8 ISS operations slides in PDF

Lect 8 ISS operations.pdf

Lecture 5, part 2 slides plus an article on economy of future US big launcher which was handed out during the class.

Lect 5_1 Ella Carlsson-Sjöberg on Mars.pdf

Lect 5_2 Human Space Craft requirements.pptx

Ref. mtrl for the items on Shuttle and Soyuz on these slides can be found in the SCOM and SoyCOM I've uploaded earlier.

SLS vs Falcon XX costs.docx

Christer

Rumours about a new big Russian launcher in the future. I wouldn't bet too much on it, but it's another guideline you may want to use in the project work

Christer

Russian Space Agency Plans World’s Biggest Rocket

RIA Novosti

Russia’s Roscosmos space agency is to seek government approval to build the world’s largest rocket, its head said Tuesday.

“I think that in the near future, within a month, we will make our suggestions to the Military-Industrial Commission,” Oleg Ostapenko said at an annual space conference in Moscow.

Ostapenko, who was appointed head of the agency in October, said the planned launcher would be able to lift 80 metric tons into low Earth orbit.

It could also be upgraded to launch as much as 160 tons, which would be the heaviest payload every lifted by a single rocket into space.

The current record holder, NASA’s Saturn V rocket that was used to launch Apollo astronauts on their journey to the moon, had a maximum capability of 120 metric tons.

Roscosmos formed a working group last year to evaluate proposals for a heavy-lift rocket, including the revival of the Energia launcher, the highest payload rocket ever built in the country.

The Energia, developed in the Soviet Union and launched twice, was cancelled during the economic crisis twenty years ago.

Experts consider such large rockets to be necessary for manned Mars or deep space missions, although they are likely to be uneconomical for commercial payloads that can be launched on existing rockets.

NASA is currently building a new super-heavy rocket, the Space Launch System, that will also come in two variants capable of lifting 70 and 130 tons into orbit. The first test flight of the smaller version is scheduled for 2017.

Russia’s largest existing rocket, the Proton, can launch payloads of up to 20 tons. The modular Angara rocket is also under development and comes in several versions, the largest of which is planned to send up to 40 tons into orbit.

China is reportedly considering construction of its own super-heavy rocket, the Long March 9, for a manned lunar mission.

Lecture 2 "Human Space fligth history" uploaded

Lect 2 History.pdf