Volken asus is being designed to support a wide range of users traditional
communication military-type users but also all of the emerging needs of space
that are going to benefit humanity back here on earth
with asus development we are truly building a platform that we can extend
to do almost anything we can dream up existing high energy upper stages are
limited to hours of on-orbit capability asus will give us the opportunity to go
beyond what we can do today things like multi-day orbits expandable
up to even a month on orbit very easily with modifications we can go from
low-earth orbits to high Earth orbit to Gio's and to even beyond with only a few
modifications some of those enabling technologies include IVF or integrated
vehicle fluids IVF allows us to generate electricity which powers our avionics
which allows us to get rid of batteries it is a reaction control system which
allows us to get rid of hydrazine and helium which really expand our duration
on orbit because we're only consuming of too many tables and then we have the
ability to add MLI or multi-layer insulation that really reduces the boil
off of our propellants it's thin layers of a reflective material that are
incredible insulators in the vacuum of space so being able to store cryogens
for days and weeks will be able to do that with ASUS because we can refuel
ASIS it opens up a large window of opportunity for us to do things that we
currently today things like being able to go to
the moon sit there for a while and then being able to bring large amounts of
material back which will enable Luna manufacturing cislunar manufacturing and
even mining on the moon and while currently ula does have the ability to
restart our upper stages Asus takes it to a whole new level we'll be able to
restart multiple times ten or more times which will allow us to use it much like
a space tug we won't have to rebuild the stages to bring things back we can reuse
the same stage over and over again saving us a lot of time energy and money
there are many customers that have performance needs in excess of what even
Vulcan ASUS can provide the way that we are moving forward to support that is by
combining the performance of a couple launches what distributed lift really
provides is the ability to take substantially more payload for example
to GSO it's about two and a half times the payload capability of single launch
the first launch would just take propellant to orbit liquid oxygen and
liquid hydrogen the second launch we take ASIS and for example a Bigelow
habitat rendezvous with that propellant we would transfer the propellant into
ASIS and then go and perform the mission with as many burns and the duration
that's needed to do support that mission so the way we determined what kind of
capabilities we should build into ASIS we looked at industry and said where
does industry really want to go in the next 10 20 or even 30 years and we are
trying to respond to a perceived market demand in the future and it is kind of a
challenge to look forward that far and try to say or what will we
when that time comes around and try to build a system that we can implement it
easily today Zeus is a mission kit that we add to the
basic basis vehicle to enable us to deliver palos directly to the lunar
surface what we do is we add electric pumps that are powered by the integrated
vehicle fluids and that feeds slick tires and liquid oxygen into auxilary
thrusters that allow us to soft land these payloads on the lunar surface
looking a little bit further out being able to extract the water and minerals
from the lunar surface utilizing Zeus to get those materials up
to orbit can transform the benefits that space offer back to humanity
so asus is an amazing technology and i'm really proud to be working on this
program and excited that ula is pursuing this technology and i can't wait until
we launch asus in the early 2020s i
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