Evaluating the Cost and Risk Impacts of Launch Choices

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-110

  Weigel, Annalisa L ^a,b,c   Hastings, Daniel E ^a,b,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Engineering Systems Division   (United States)

^c Department of Aeronautics ^*  (United States)

^d Technology and Policy Program

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE FLIGHT;

LAUNCH VEHICLES; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING (MIP);

LAUNCHING;

EID: 1542784019     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.9270     Document Type: Article

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