Budget Analysis and Timeline
A proposed budget analysis is presented in order to
determine the viability of the mission. The proposed budget is divided into two
cost components. These are cost of the launch vehicle and the cost of the spacecraft.
The launch vehicle which will be selected for this mission is the Falcon 9
Heavy. The mass of the spacecraft is expected to be around 19,000kg. The launch
vehicle will be required to lift the spacecraft to a geostationary transfer
orbit (GTO). Given, these parameters, the expected cost of the launch vehicle
is $95M (http://www.spacex.com/falcon9_heavy.php). This cost includes range,
standard payload integration and third party liability insurance. The cost of
the spacecraft comprises of the cost of Research, Development, Testing and
Evaluation (RDT&E) and the cost of Production. Each of these costs for the
components of the spacecraft cost is estimated using parametric relationships. Such
relationships are developed using historical satellite data, statistical
frameworks and error models. The expected costs for the each subsystem in the
spacecraft, along with the standard error as a percentage of the expected cost
for each statistical model are given in the table below:
Source: Wertz, J.R.,
Larson, W.J. (Eds), space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd Ed.,
Microcosm Press, 2007
The total cost of the mission is expected to be around $22B. The cost allocated to each subsystem indicates the total of the labor and materials required to produced that subsystem. The Integration, Assembly and Test (IA&T), Program Level, Ground Support Equipment, and Launch and Orbital Operations Support (LOOS) cost are considered wrap costs. These costs encompass those associated with labor-intensive activities. The functions in these categories include management, systems engineering, product assurance and system tests. Specifically, the IA&T costs include labor and material costs for integrating the spacecraft and payload subsystems into an operational space vehicle, and accounts for the research/requirement specifications, system test and evaluation, and test data analysis among others. It excludes the cost the costs for integrating components into a subsystem which are subsumed under the subsystem costs. The Program Level costs comprise of the contractor costs for system engineering, program management, reliability, quality assurance and other costs not specifically associated with an individual hardware or software component. Ground Support Equipment costs consists of equipment required to support the integration of the satellite to the launch vehicle, provide physical, electrical and data interfaces with the satellite using IA&T. The LOOS costs include costs related to launch and orbital checkout of the space system.
Timeline
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