The Fairchild Space Company

Planned to spent $150 million on its first ''leasecraft,'' to be launched by 1988. The platform, one of three planned, is seen as ''an industrial park in space, a place where people can make things or observe the earth. ''We will supply the heat, light and the communications - the real estate out there.''

Created: 2022-09-05

Updated: 2023-08-20

Company - The Fairchild Space Company

Founded
Country: 1983; USA

Funding: Yes, ?

Product/Service

Classification: Space Stations & Habitats

Category: Commercial Space Station
Microgravity Flight Service (LEO)
Transport Service (Re-Entry)

Fields: Automated Microgravity Laboratory

Status: Dormant, Cancelled

First launch: Dormant

Fairchild, an American aerospace company, has designed a platform called LEASECRAFT. Its mission profile is rather similar to EURECA's, but it can stay in orbit much longer and can accommodate a 10000 kg payload. The McDonnell Douglas electrophoresis experiment (EOS) is often mentioned as a possible customer for LEASECRAFT.

Rentals will cost from $300,000 to $4 million a month, depending on how much space and power are used on the 15,000-pound spacecraft, which will measure about 15 feet square.

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