» Airline safety

Safety aspects in Space activities have generally been overlooked because of the extremity of the design required to attain orbit. The public now expects safety levels found in commercial airliners for Spacecraft, because no longer is the “right stuff” considered excuse for risking astronaut lives. Until HYT, safe Spaceflight has not been within the realms of a single national or consortiums budget.

» HYT+Neecenow =

HYT combines its development with BAT’s ARFG Neecenow to reduce and share development costs and providing a design foundation from a commercial airliner.

Using a commercial airliner as a base product builds in levels of safety expected by the public previously unattainable, and now demanded. A commercial airliner must be safe; it is mandated by several major organisations worldwide both through legal standards during manufacture, and directives once entering service to catch any parts of inadequate integrity or standard affecting standard, over time evolving safety to higher standards.

» Airline operated

HYT will be operated by three selected commercial airlines, using and evolving standards and protocols presently found in commercial airline industry. Using such high standards allows the success of the commercial airline industry to be experienced in commercial Space missions. By having three different airlines introduces competition to fly successfully and safely, reducing accidents/incidents – which will be dealt with the same protocols as commercial airlines – and it will reduce costs of operations.

Taking away the operation of Space activities from typical, unaccountable and often Government operated institutions means bureaucracy is taken out of the Space industry. This allows safety standards to increase and costs to be lowered, with fewer oversights, short cuts and delays. Such institutions will still plan and design missions, they will just be excluded from the operation and maintenance of the HYT Spacecraft, a facet substantially increasing safety and commercial viability. Safety monitoring can also be conducted by these institutions further enhancing safety.

» Safety=savings

Though safe operations add significant initial cost to a project, unsafe operations cost more. Any incident generally grounds the fleet immediately while a lengthy investigation is undertaken, halting commercial activities and creating backlogs. With 3 commercial airlines operating the HYT Aerospacecraft, potentially only a single operator needs to be grounded. Negative publicity ruins viability, confidence and trust in the product, reducing investment because investors loose money and confidence. Back engineering changes for increased safety is more expensive than outright purposeful manufacture at high standards.

By following the leadership guidelines found in commercial aviation, Space flight becomes cheap and accessible. Competition created cuts costs and three sets of the Worlds best airlines best engineers can intuitively enhance the safety while reducing operational costs to themselves and their customers.  

» Varulkarie programme

Although the environment has long been respected by people, it’s only recently that we have learnt of natures extreme fragility, and how, however unintentional, people are untidy and thoughtless much of the time. With Spaceflight, responsibility is essential, as what is put up into orbit can stay up there for hundreds of years, anything from a chip of paint to spent rocket stages and obsolete satellites.

Debris from former Space missions has formed above this planet, placing a hazard on traffic. The numbers of this debris are around 18,000 object over the size of 10cm are being tracked, a number rising daily from collision breeding new debris and new rocket parts discarded. This number excludes items such as bolts and other small, heavy objects below 10cm that can cripple or destroy Spacecraft.  

The safety issues of debris to future craft are serious: orbital velocity is around 17,000mph. Velocity creates energy to any object; an item with a mass half of another has similar impact energy travelling at a certain, higher speed, then greater energy at any speed faster. At orbital velocity, even a tiny object can have serious implications for Spacecraft should it collide: now that’s an environmental impact. Hulls can be ruptured and if crews haven’t got pressure suits on they have poor chance of survival.

BAT has launched a contract to yield a design to be manufactured that cleans up this debris. There are two reusable designs being funded to collect the debris such as old, disused satellites dragged back into the atmosphere on re-entry, on a safe trajectory. Bolts and other debris below a certain dimension will be stored in an internal bay. The design is hoped to recycle expensive materials by removal.

It is hoped soon after HYT begins operations, rockets will be banned from conducting flights to stop debris pollution and cluttering of Space. It should also be negotiated to never destroy satellites purposefully using anti-satellites missiles or other means, as this creates thousands of additional fragments in Space.

The link to the Varulkarie design programme is of the HYT main page and in BAT Central parts of this site

» Green HYT

HYT is independent of additional boosters; what goes up, comes back down. HYT’s will be unpainted and materials and insulation using adhesives stringently avoided. Missions will take the utmost care when deploying satellites or supplies to orbit with general items such as nuts and bolts not used, instead, other ways of locking will be used such as clips. This minimises any further polluting or contamination of the skies above Earth, while the programme also funds the manufacture of Space debris removers which it will deploy.

» Karaya: launching the commercial age of space-transport.

The use of a test aircraft will help verify the capability of the J2000 aerospacecraft. Karaya will be used as a test-bed for establishing the parameters for HYT operations and developing materials and components. This testing will provide cost savings and data to fine-tune the HYT for optimum safety, performance and integrity. Any long term product for spaceflight must be adequately tested before it enters service.

Karaya will help reduce the risks of trans-atmospheric flight to near zero before the HYT flights begin. Once this level of safety is achieved a higher number of people will be interested in space exploration and investment, providing a bigger market for HYT portion investors.