To measure economic impact of developing and operating reusable space vehicle, Earth-orbital program is selected to show annual funding and cumulative total cost under two conditions; first is based on use of Saturn IB and Saturn V class payloads and second on using reusable orbital transport (ROT) in two variants; conventional two-stage design having new aerospike rocket engine, and advanced two-stage concept using scramjet in second stage; comparison of costs show that it will be more economical to use SaturnIB or Saturn-V vehicles than to develop and operate conventional or advanced ROT.
High costs of reusable orbital transports
Astronautics Aeronautics
Astronautics and Aeronautics ; 6 , n 1
1968
5 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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