Innovative Small Launcher

• Main Authors: van Kleef, Arnaud, Oving, Bertil, Verberne, C. J., Haemmerli, Bastien, Kuhn, Markus, Müller, Ilja, Petkov, Ivaylo
• Other Authors: Hatton, Scott
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: German
• Published: Springer 2015
• Subjects: Raumfahrt - System - Integration; Norway; Andøya
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/120237/; https://elib.dlr.de/120237/1/van%20Kleef,%20Innovative%20Small%20Launcher,%20RIspace,%20BIS-RS-2015-16%20%282015%29.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32817-1_7

The market for small satellites is expected to increase substantially in the coming years, but there is little capacity to launch them affordably. No operational dedicated launcher for small satellites exists today. Small satellites, launched as secondary payloads, are entirely dependent on the cons...