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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.