A Review of the Competitive Space Transportation Industry, from Provider Options to Customer Needs

摘要

The analytical team at Bryce Space and Technology has extensive experience studying the space transportation industry. Bryce augments its library of data with additional research and analysis. This body of work can be summarized to offer a top-level, bird's eye view of the space transportation industry. This paper first presents a summary of existing and near-term commercially available orbital launch vehicles. Second, this paper will generally characterize how spacecraft customers select launch services.