An overview of projected space transportation systems for the 1980-2000 period is presented. Methods for meeting the requirements in that area are documented through a description of the Space Shuttle and its current upper stages, reusable transfer vehicles, Shuttle uprating, fully reusable and single-stage transports, heavy lift vehicles, and advanced vehicles for orbital transfer and lunar landing. The structure of the liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen boosters, cryogenic propellants, whose main propulsion system is a derivative of the RL-10 engine used in the Centaur launch, and mixed mode propulsion engine is also described, as is the flyback booster concept and such related issues as propellants and rocket engines, staging velocity, configuration shape, and whether it should be manned or unmanned. Especially noted are proposed propulsion systems going beyond the present Shuttle such as the nuclear and electric propulsion concepts, the resistojet, using liquid hydrogen, ion thruster, using argon, magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters, solar thermal rocket, and solar sail concept where the basic idea is to use a 'sail' of thin reflective material to generate a net force by reflection of solar radiation.


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    Titel :

    Space transportation systems, 1980-2000


    Beteiligte:
    Cohan, C. J. (Autor:in) / Olstad, W. B. (Autor:in) / Patterson, D. W. (Autor:in) / Salkeld, R. (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.01.1978


    Medientyp :

    Buch


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch


    Schlagwörter :


    Space transportation systems : [1980 - 2000]

    American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Technical Committee on Space Systems | TIBKAT | 1978