Current
Business
Triton Systems continues its support to the NASA Johnson Space
Center Engineering Directorate with engineering analysis work
scheduled through to 2008. Triton has been proud
to work with the team modeling and analyzing the Space Shuttle Main
Propulsion System in preparation for Shuttle space missions.
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2007 Business Development
Activities
1.
Small Business Innovative Research Proposals
2.
Invited
Presentation to AIAA Space 2007 Convention
3.
Participation in Space Investment Summit III
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2006 Business Development
Activities
1.
Commercial Space Station Re-Supply Proposal
2. Air Force Research
Laboratory RASTE Conference
3.
Johnson Space
Center Astrodynamics Seminar
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2007
1.
Commercial Space Station
Re-Supply Proposal
In September Triton Systems
submitted 3 small business innovative research proposals to NASA,
two in collaboration with the University of Houston -Clear Lake
physics department. Two of the proposals related to Stellar-J
development and one related to a trajectory tool for missions to the
moon and libration points. None of the proposals were accepted
for the final 2007 NASA opportunity, but we expect to continue this
avenue of work in 2008 with both NASA and other government agencies.
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2007
2.
Invited Presentation to AIAA Space 2007 Convention
In September Wes Kelly was invited
to speak at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
Space 2007 Convention and Conference. The session was devoted
to space tourism and the Triton Systems presentation was titled:
"The Stellar-J & Space Tourism: A Primary Market or Stepping Stone
Capability?"
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2007
3.
Participation in Space
Investment Summit III
In December Paul Royall, Charles
George and Wes Kelly provided a 5-minute presentation and booth
display at Space Investment Summit III, held in San Jose,
California. Details of the conference and the
conference
agenda are provided at the following web sites:
http://www.spacecommerceroundtable.com/upcoming.html
http://www.spacecommerceroundtable.com/sis3_agenda.html
ABSTRACT
Small Satellite Launch Vehicle
- Triton Systems LLC/Triton Aerospace Corporation :
Venture to develop the vehicle designed for reusable first stage
launches and to land horizontally to provide frequent, low-cost
small satellite launch capabilities to a market of several hundred
awaiting small satellites with market service values of ~$20,000 per
pound.
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2006
1.
Commercial Orbital Transportation
Services Demonstration:
Triton Submits
Proposal to NASA for International Space Station Re-supply
Triton led a six
company partnership in drafting and submitting a proposal for the
Stellar-J launch system to the NASA Commercial Orbital
Transportation Services (COTS) Demonstration competition. The
proposal was delivered to NASA for review in March 2006, vying with
over twenty other competitors for contracts worth hundreds of
millions of dollars. The Stellar-J proposal was not included among
the six semi-finalists selected in May, and of those six, NASA
selected proposals from Kistler-Rocket Plane and SpaceX for funding
in September. For the three types of unmanned missions to the
International Space Station, Triton submitted the Stellar-J vehicle
with two expendable upper stage concepts and an automated,
retrievable winged upper stage configuration.
References:
http://cotswatch.org/ (Archival news, commentary and reports)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Orbital_Transportation_Services
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2006
2.
Triton Systems Participates in Air
Force Research Laboratory
Conference on Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology
Triton participated in
the Responsive Access to Space Technology Exchange (RASTE)
conference sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton,
Ohio, 18-19 July 2006. The purpose of the conference was to share
reusable launch vehicle technologies developed by the AFRL and its
vendors with existing and emerging reusable launch vehicle (RLV)
prime contractors. From its Stellar-J analysis perspective, Triton
promoted horizontally launched systems, its own design and
mission modeling methods, plus its market analyses.
Both the COTS proposal effort and the
RASTE conference participation have resulted in advances in design
maturity of the Stellar-J launch vehicle concept.
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3.
Triton
Systems Offers Lunch Astrodynamics Seminar
at NASA's Johnson Space Center:
"Earth, Moon &
Spacecraft - Star A, B & Planet"
To promote the
company’s expertise in astrodynamics and flight mechanics related to
the lunar and interplanetary missions, on 17 November, Triton
provided a lunch-time seminar at the Johnson Space Center ( Building
16) titled: Earth, Moon & Spacecraft – Star A, B & Planet.
Arranged through the local Houston chapter of the American Institute
of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the seminar discussed the
applications of restricted elliptic 3-body modeling to trajectories
related to lunar missions – and to newly discovered extra-planetary
systems. This one hour talk was an introduction to several
additional seminar presentations in which elements of celestial
mechanics and astrodynamics are discussed: Lagrangian mechanics and
libration points, trajectories between Earth and moon, trajectory
controls and the influence of mass ratios and eccentricities on
3-body dynamics.
The presentation
and a background paper are available at the AIAA Houston chapter
website:
www.aiaa-houston.org
For similar
astrodynamics seminars, studies or support,
Contact
Triton Systems for details.

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