Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2011
Abstract
The use of space gives the United States distinct advantages in any battlefield environment, but the high cost of space operations increasingly jeopardizes those advantages. Although the United States pioneered much of the current space technology, declining budgets for space research, development, and operations leave our legacy systems vulnerable to adversaries around the world. Other nations formerly incapable of space exploitation are quickly learning to counter US space technologies at surprisingly low costs. In order to reduce the expense of deploying and maintaining a robust space capability, the Department of Defense (DOD) must change the status quo in space operations or risk losing its dominance.
Source Publication
Air and Space Power Journal
Recommended Citation
Co, T. C., & Black, J. T. (2011). A Taskable Space Vehicle: Realizing Cost Savings by Combining Orbital and Suborbital Flight. Air and Space Power Journal, 25(2), 74–80. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA562381
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