Effects of meteoroids on nuclear-rocket vehicles for three missions are presented; probability of failure to complete lunar mission is negligible for unprotected nuclear rocket wherein nuclear stage is used only to accelerate payload spacecraft to desired earth-lunar transfer velocity; if such unprotected nuclear rocket is also used to retro fire payload into lunar orbit, there is 2% probability of failure to successfully complete mission; shield of 0.02-in, aluminum around liquid hydrogen propellant tank reduces probability of failure to less than 0.5% for single mission for both lunar and orbital vehicles.


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    Titel :

    Meteoroid effects on nuclear rocket space vehicle mission success


    Weitere Titelangaben:

    Symp Hypervelocity Impact -- Proc


    Beteiligte:
    Sterbentz, W.H. (Autor:in) / Long, L.L. (Autor:in)

    Kongress:

    6th Symposium on Hypervelocity Impact ; 1963 ; United States , Cleveland Meteor impact



    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1963


    Format / Umfang :

    29 pages


    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch


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