Category Archives: Propellant Depots

The “Fantasy” of Propellant Depots?

Posted on November 20, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

Space Journalist/Blogger Rob Coppinger wrote an article tonight attempting to debunk “The Fantasy of Propellant Depots“, which he makes out to be some sort of religious mantra in the New Space community.  I will admit that depots are finally starting … Continue reading →

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ULA Propellant Depot Paper (Updated)

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

Here’s one other interesting paper, which was presented at the SPACE 2008 conference a few months ago. As I mentioned in a previous post, I was given a copy of a few of the ULA papers before the conference, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial Space, COTS, ESAS, International Space Collaboration, Launch Vehicles, Lunar Commerce, MSS, NASA, Propellant Depots, Space Development, Space Transportation, Technology | 14 Comments

ULA SPACE 2008 Papers

Posted on September 11, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

There were a few interesting papers being presented at the Space 2008 conference that some of my friends at ULA sent me.  I’m going to wait until after the conference is over, so I don’t steal their thunder, but they … Continue reading →

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Additional Thoughts on the SA’08 Propellant Depot Panel

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

It’s been long enough since I put up the presentations from the panel, that I figured it would be worth starting a new post to mention some of my thoughts on what we discussed on the panel. Some of these … Continue reading →

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Space Access 2008 Propellant Depot Panel

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

I’ll update this after work with some commentary (and sometime in the next week or two, I’ll see if I can upload a video of the session as well). But for now here are the four presentations that were given. … Continue reading →

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Propellant Depot Panel Questions

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Jonathan Goff

I’d like to solicit questions regarding the technical or business aspects of orbital propellant depots for the panel I’ll be chairing this coming Friday. I’ve got a great lineup of panelists (Rand Simberg of TransTerrestrial Musings, Dallas Bienhoff of Boeing, … Continue reading →

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